The small intestine is well adapted for digestion: it has thin walls, making it easy for food molecules to pass through into the blood stream. The last stage of digestion involves the large ...

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

Do we need stool plus small-intestine bacterial samples? Or just one or the other? We will try all three options to determine the best model for recreating the small intestine (ideally ...

Knocking out a single gene reprograms part of the large intestine ... that in a preclinical model of short bowel syndrome, deleting the colon gene SATB2 prompts cells of the upper colon to change ...