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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Between the billion-dollar probiotic-supplement push, probiotic additives in food (probiotic chips!), and recent studies linking gut health to everything from mental well-being to cancer, the ...

Bulging stomachs often take the blame for ending holiday indulging. But bulging guts might be the real appetite killer, a study in mice suggests. The results, published November 14 in Cell, could ...

Do you know that many times all kinds of dirt keeps collecting in your bowels without any external symptoms? And when this dirt becomes excessive (after a while), then you are at increased risk of ...

Sharks have spiral-shaped intestines that work in a similar way to an unusual valve designed by Nikola Tesla. Studying their anatomy could help improve industrial fluid-pump technology. Most animals ...

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 ...