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 ...

For the first time, a team of experts from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), RWTH Aachen University, and the German ...

Microbiome is as unique as a fingerprint. These bacteria perform important jobs, including maintaining the intestinal barrier ...

In a recent study published in Science Immunology, researchers explore gene expression profiles of distinct populations of intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs), particularly T-cell IELs (T-IELs), within ...

Colonoscopy is a diagnos­tic as well as a therapeutic procedure performed to eval­uate the large intestine (colon, rectum, and anus). A colonoscopy lets the phy­sician look inside your entire large ...