The human immune system changes with age. Immune responses start to become less robust as people get older, which makes them more vulnerable to certain infections and diseases. However, immune system ...

Organ-on-a-chip maker Emulate has launched an upgraded offering for researchers studying inflammatory bowel disease with its tissue model that helps illustrate how immune cells are activated and ...

Diverticulosis is a condition where small pouches form and protrude through weak spots in the intestinal wall. Diverticular bleeding happens when a blood vessel in a pouch bursts. Diverticular ...

Your abdominal muscles keep your organs and intestines in place. The protrusion of abdominal organs through a weak spot in the abdominal wall is called a hernia. Ventral hernias involve the front part ...

While this image might look like a multicolored tile floor, it is actually a cross section through the fingerlike bumps on the intestinal wall called villi. The cells within the villi, which you can ...

Fistulas are small tunnels that form between two organs or an organ and the surface of your body. They’re due to inflammation from your Crohn’s disease, which causes sores to form on your intestinal ...

Our guts hold a kind of brain, known as the enteric nervous system; it is a network of neurons that extends throughout the walls of the gastrointestinal tract. This neural network can also function ...

The revolutionary understanding of gut health has transformed how we think about wellness, revealing that the trillions of bacteria living in our digestive system control everything from immunity and ...

Patients suffering from Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory intestinal disorder, develop painful constrictions in the bowel. Due to a lack of methods until now, these complications cannot be ...