It’s not always obvious which of the multitude of species of bacteria riding around in us should be classified as germs and attacked, and which are essential workers that should be nurtured. One ...

Explains the process of digestion, detailing how food is transformed into simpler substances that can be absorbed into the ...

It’s not always obvious which of the multitude of species of bacteria riding around in us should be classified as germs and ...

Ever wondered what really goes on after you eat? From the moment food enters your stomach, it's a wild journey of digestion ...

With a rising prevalence of gastrointestinal issues among Americans, Live It Up broke down the five most common conditions.

Much remains unknown about the novel coronavirus ripping through China, but one thing is certain. The disease can cast a storm over the whole human body. Such has been the nature of past zoonotic ...

In fact, gastrointestinal epithelial cells (those lining the entirety of the digestive tract, not just the stomach) make up around 12 percent of the cellular turnover that the human body sees each ...

But the human brain doesn’t think you have just one stomach. In fact, the brain is very good at compartmentalising what you eat: such that when you undo the top button of your trousers and feel ...

Your stomach protects itself from being digested by its own enzymes, or burnt by the corrosive hydrochloric acid, by secreting sticky, neutralising mucus that clings to the stomach walls.

Each human is a finely tuned orchestra of more than 37 trillion cells. Mapping this little-known world is one of biology’s greatest challenges — and one in which scientists say they just made ...