According to a new study, slowing the aging of your intestines may be vital to slowing overall aging. An experiment on zebrafish showed that if the aging of just that one organ was slowed through DNA ...

After every meal, the intestines perform an action called peristalsis—moving food through their hollow interiors with coordinated contractions and relaxations of the smooth muscle. For more than a ...

IBS is a chronic disorder, which involves the way the digestive system works, without any apparent structural damage to the ...

The body has a way of signalling when something isn’t quite right, and your stomach and intestines are particularly loud ...

Mesenteric artery ischemia is a condition that restricts blood flow to your intestines. Three main arteries, called the mesenteric arteries, supply blood to your small and large intestines. Narrowing ...

Your abdominal muscles keep your organs and intestines in place. The protrusion of abdominal organs through a weak spot in the abdominal wall is called a hernia. Ventral hernias involve the front part ...

You’re sitting in a meeting when all of a sudden that unmistakeable feeling hits you right in your gut. Droplets of sweat chase each other down your hairline, challenging the pace of your foot tapping ...

Pulsing movements in an embryo are crucial to helping intestines grow into the wonder tube that it is, a study finds. By Veronique Greenwood In the grayscale of a laboratory video, the little tubes ...

Scientists produced 3-D looks at shark’s guts. By Veronique Greenwood The inside of a shark is full of curiosities, starting with rows of hardworking teeth that can be replaced by fresh ones ...

In 1920, Serbian-born inventor Nikola Tesla designed and patented what he called a “valvular conduit”: a pipe whose internal design ensures that a fluid will flow in one preferred direction, with no ...

Researchers sheds light on a face-off in the intestines between the immune system and a bacterial pathogen whose family members cause gastrointestinal disease and the plague. The team's insights may ...

Intestinal pseudo-obstruction is a rare condition that occurs when you have symptoms of intestinal obstruction without anything physically blocking the intestines. It can be chronic or develop ...