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

Knocking out a single gene reprograms part of the large intestine to function like the nutrient-absorbing small intestine.

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 ...

Here’s what you should know. When you have short bowel syndrome, a large part of your small intestine is either removed or damaged and doesn’t work. The small intestine is the part of your ...

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 ...

The successful demonstration suggests that a similar strategy could be used to treat short bowel syndrome, a life-threatening disorder that can occur when very little of the small intestine ...

It is normal to have a lot of bacteria in the colon, where digestion moves more slowly, but an overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine causes problems like gas and bloating or more ...

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 ...