The microbial community living within our large intestine is a highly dense and complex ecosystem. While some of these ...

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

An unusual gut bacteria can help prevent obesity. But how do you keep it happy? - Researchers have known for years that this ...

Hirschsprung disease and meconium ileus can both cause a newborn to be unable to pass their first stool. Learn the different ...

What's left of the food goes into your large intestine. And guess what? It's about 15 feet shorter than the small intestine. Ironic, huh? But at three to four inches around, it's wider ...

On the left, large intestine tissue from a healthy person; on the right, from a patient with active C. difficile infection. The white areas show the cells that line the intestine (epithelial cells).

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