If you have a sensitive stomach or are offended by frank talk regarding the human body and its functions, you would do well ...

A man was hospitalized after more than three feet of his small intestine broke through a two-inch hole in his abdomen where ...

Fermentation breaks down compounds in foods, potentially improving your body's absorption of key nutrients, such as iron. It ...

Microplastics get into your body through food, water, and air, says Stephanie Wright, PhD, a senior lecturer in environmental toxicology at Imperial College London. Given the amount of air humans ...

There are several potential health benefits of figs, from promoting digestion and heart health to potentially managing blood ...

Using mice and human tissue samples, researchers found the loss of this gene resulted in increased metastatic tumours which spread from the bowel to the liver, lymph nodes and the diaphragm. Key ...

Mount Sinai researchers have published the first study to use wearable devices to assess how inflammation and symptoms in ...

From fecal transplants to phage cocktails, scientists reveal how gut viruses could unlock precision medicine for digestive diseases and beyond.

Scottish scientists have made a key discovery in how bowel cancer, which is increasingly being diagnosed in younger people in Scotland, is able to disguise itself. Cancer cells can mimic skin or ...

A Bermudian played a key role in groundbreaking research that led to the understanding of how a devastating cancer can spread ...

On 26 June 2000, the first draft of the human genome was announced, a historic achievement that changed the course of science. Now, experts at the Wellcome Sanger Institute are looking ahead to how ...

Whether you had breakfast this morning or not, your pancreas is working quietly behind the scenes. This vital organ produces ...