What would you see if you peered inside a human small intestine? Here’s a glimpse at its structure, revealing a community of cells with different functions. A biopsy like this is generally very small ...

They are densest at the beginning of the small intestine and begin to thin out toward the end. Covering the surface of each ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have analyzed the molecular crosstalk between pain fibers in the gut and goblet cells that line the walls of the intestine. The work shows that chemical signals ...

requiring constant and precise regulation of intestinal stem cells (ISCs) to sustain the production of new absorptive enterocytes and secretory cells, including Paneth, goblet, tuft, and ...