It can take six hours for the small intestine to do its job. The nutrients are sucked from the inner surface of the small ...

Did you know if you unfolded your intestines, they'd be taller than a giraffe? Yep, they form a digestive tube so lengthy it's got two sections. The so-called small intestine is about 22 feet long ...

Purdue University scientists isolated it from layers of tissue called small-intestine submucosa, or SIS, after they discovered more than a decade ago that the small intestine possessed unusual healing ...

Partially digested food arrives in the intestine from the stomach. Digested food is absorbed in the small intestine. This means that it passes through the wall of the small intestine and into the ...

Crohn’s disease involves inflammation of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, affecting the deepest layers of the intestinal ... multiple ulcers in the small intestine or colon.

But the ways in which changes in the microbiome result in changes in the functioning of the intestinal cells are still unclear. The microbiome of the small intestine is distinct from the colon ...