A new study led by researchers at the University of Liège highlights the unexpected role of Stard7 in the development of intestinal cancers.

Alain Chariot's team has just published a study in EMBO Molecular Medicine shedding light on the unexpected role of the Stard7 protein in the development of intestinal cancers. Long regarded as a ...

Inside the African clawed frog, intestines grow just like humans’: neatly coiled counterclockwise. Experiments now show how that process can go awry. Interfering with tadpoles’ metabolism leads to a ...

The gut microbiome is an important ecosystem of microbes that lives in each one of us, and its strength affects our overall health. However, the small intestine is an underappreciated part of the gut ...

Research from an international team finds that the human gut is a site of rapid change, with recent and important deviations from other mammals, including our closest living relative, the chimpanzee.

Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered that bacteria can drive stem cell regeneration to repair the intestinal lining after injury—uncovering an unexpected way in which the gut ...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the leading cause of death worldwide. Several risk factors, including genetics, sex, and age, increase the risk of CVDs. Other factors that contribute to CVD ...

When it comes to intestines, it sure seems like two are better than one. I asked my friend Franck Carbonero why that is. He’s a microbiologist at Washington State University. He studies the bacteria ...