There was a recent flurry of excitement when UK researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, a nonprofit genomics and genetics research organization in Cambridge, England, announced their creation ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified three types of nerve cells connected to the intestinal villi, suggesting that previously unknown neural networks regulate fluid balance in the gut.

Researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland (APC) have collaborated with scientists in the University of York to complete the first ever structural atlas of a crassvirus (also referred to as crassvirales, ...

Study: Quantifying the intra- and inter-species community interactions in microbiomes by dynamic covariance mapping. Image credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock.com A study published in Nature ...

In a new study published in Science Immunology, researchers at King's College London looked at a type of tissue important for the immune response called gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT), which is ...

Imaging of human intestinal tissue in inflammatory bowel disease showing the presence of metaplastic epithelial glands. The most comprehensive cell map of the human gut to date has been created by ...