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

What is colonoscopy? Colonoscopy is a diagnos­tic as well as a therapeutic procedure performed to eval­uate the large intestine (colon, rectum, and anus). A colonoscopy lets the phy­sician look inside ...

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 ...

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