Scientist Sarallah Rezazadeh from the Icahn School of Medicine explores the molecular mechanisms behind adult stem cells as ...

Specialised intestinal macrophage subsets appear to receive cues from surrounding cells, a concept otherwise known as macrophage niche. Neuron-associated macrophages are crucial for the survival and ...

In the animal kingdom, the vertebrate intestine is renowned for its regenerative capacity, a vital process for maintaining ...

With every bite of food we take, our intestinal immune system must make a big decision. Tasked with defending us from foreign ...

A four year-long research study has found that particles secreted by an intestinal worm may assist in treating inflammatory ...

Intestinal stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells, which in mammals reside in the base of the crypts of the adult intestine. Intestinal stem cells continuously self-renew by dividing and ...

Intestinal metaplasia (IM) occurs when the body replaces the cells that line the upper digestive tract (including the stomach and esophagus) with cells that line the intestines. When IM happens in ...

Monoallelic loss of PTEN and ARID1A is identified in normal colonic epithelium. The resulting haploinsufficient phenotypes ...

The team said their study showed vast numbers of particles end up absorbed by intestinal cells and, from there, pass into the bloodstream and around the human body. “The biological interaction ...