The digestive system is the series of tubelike organs that convert our meals into body fuel. There are about 30 feet (9 meters) of these convoluted pipeworks, starting with the mouth and ending ...

Alcohol doesn’t just impact the liver, it wreaks havoc on the entire digestive system. From inflamed gums and acid reflux to ...

PBS Nova spoke with physiology experts and competitors to find out what happens to the human ... other gastrointestinal ...

To do that, the researchers looked at how CRISPR sequences changed over time in two different datasets obtained by sequencing microbes from the human digestive tract. One of these datasets ...

Your heart's will to beat, to keep going, is incredibly strong. If the heart fails, so does everything else… Because it's your heart's job to deliver to every cell, to every nook and cranny of ...

The human immune system protects organisms with layered ... and their role in innate and acquired immunity with respect to gastrointestinal diseases has increased exponentially over the past ...

The gut microbiome—the microorganisms inhabiting the human gastrointestinal tract—plays important roles in health and disease, affecting not only the local environment but also the immune ...