The human small intestine absorbs nutrients while protecting us from potentially harmful microbes. One of the cell types that plays a key role in this protection is the microfold cell (M cell). These ...

Infant nutrition is crucial for early development, with breast milk regarded as the gold standard. However, replicating its nutrient absorption and metabolic outcomes in infant formula remains ...

A detailed cellular study of Crohn's disease has mapped how gene activity changes across more than 50 cell types in the gut. The study provides an open resource of the genes that characterize each ...

Key limitations of current human gastrointestinal organoids include incomplete physiological maturation and the need for complex, time-consuming assembloid approaches to integrate a functional nervous ...

Dynamic switching between revival stem cells and conventional intestinal stem cells enables efficient tissue repair without exhausting the stem cell pool, report researchers from Institute of Science ...