Single-celled organisms called archaea aren't generally thought to cause human disease, but one species has been implicated in colorectal cancer ...

Scientists discovered that the brainless sea anemone build their bodies with a technique common in bilaterians... which is ...

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 ...

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

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

The workings of the small intestine have long been a mystery, but now we are discovering the hidden roles this organ plays in ...

3. You Have Regular Bowel Movements The two types of fiber, soluble and insoluble, play essential roles in regulating bowel movements. Insoluble fiber increases how quickly stools move through the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Animal studies often show encouraging results that don’t translate directly to human treatments. However, the fact that the strawberry tree extract worked almost as well as an established human ...

WITH bowel cancer rates rising in younger adults around the world, experts are desperately searching for possible causes. Risk factors like diet, alcohol and smoking could be explanations, say expe… ...

What’s left is poop, a.k.a. stool, which is stored in your rectum until you’re ready to have a bowel movement. “The presence of stool in the rectum sends a signal to the brain that says ...