There is a critical unmet need to help tighten and maintain a healthy intestinal barrier and treat a leaky gut. Researchers have now found that a unique strain of probiotic bacteria, Bifidobacterium ...

Intestinal tuft cells divide to make new cells when immunological cues trigger them. Additionally, in contrast to progenitor- and stem cells, tuft cells can survive severe injury such as irradiation ...

Investigators have identified a component in the intestine that plays a critical role in repairing damaged tissue. Investigators at Cedars-Sinai and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) ...

Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) develop a protocol to transplant 3D cellular structures that could regenerate damaged intestine Watch ...

Under the surface of an organ, many different cell types participate in crucial interactions. This means that when an organ suffers damage, fixing it is not as easy as slapping on a Band-Aid.

Share on Pinterest Scientists have found a link between neotame and damage to the intestinal wall. Image by Marie LaFauci/Getty Images The artificial sweetener neotame damages healthy cells in the ...

Neotame was recently found to have no impact on appetite. But within weeks, researchers have deemed the same artificial sweetener capable of damaging the human intestine and causing illness. It’s been ...

Crypt-base-columnar cells are continuously dividing intestinal stem cells that generate IECs, which are composed by distinct specialised cell types that play different functions: Enterocytes (in the ...

B cells are critical to proper immune system functioning, but research headed by scientists at Karolinska Institutet has now found that B cells can sometimes do more harm than good. The team’s study ...

Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes inflammation and ulcers (sores) in the digestive tract. Ulcerative colitis affects the innermost lining of the colon and rectum.