Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that chemical signals produced by gut bacteria work together to control intestinal ...

Scientists produced 3-D looks at shark’s guts. By Veronique Greenwood The inside of a shark is full of curiosities, starting with rows of hardworking teeth that can be replaced by fresh ones ...

In 1920, Serbian-born inventor Nikola Tesla designed and patented what he called a “valvular conduit”: a pipe whose internal design ensures that a fluid will flow in one preferred direction, with no ...

Rodents and pigs share with certain aquatic organisms the ability to use their intestines for respiration, a new study finds. The researchers demonstrated that the delivery of oxygen gas or oxygenated ...

Pulsing movements in an embryo are crucial to helping intestines grow into the wonder tube that it is, a study finds. By Veronique Greenwood See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra ...

According to a new study, slowing the aging of your intestines may be vital to slowing overall aging. An experiment on zebrafish showed that if the aging of just that one organ was slowed through DNA ...

Researchers sheds light on a face-off in the intestines between the immune system and a bacterial pathogen whose family members cause gastrointestinal disease and the plague. The team's insights may ...

Inside the African clawed frog, intestines grow just like humans’: neatly coiled counterclockwise. Experiments now show how that process can go awry. Interfering with tadpoles’ metabolism leads to a ...