This type causes inflammation in the final section of your small intestine, known as the ileum, as well as in your colon (large intestine). The ileum absorbs water, carbohydrates, proteins ...

To present the pioneering concept, Peer and his team encoded the anti-inflammatory protein interleukin-10 into mRNA and ...

Crohn’s disease is a chronic condition that causes irritation and inflammation of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The disease most often affects the small and large intestine. However ...

Step inside Asst. Prof. Sam Light’s lab to learn how scientists are mapping the incredible network of microbes living inside ...

It basically kept getting passed off as, like, anxiety or stress since I was meeting someone new and eating new foods...” ...

Addressing one of the longstanding challenges in gastrointestinal drug delivery, Virginia Tech researchers have transformed gut bacteria into tiny protein factories. These engineered microbes ...

If gut transit time is long (meaning you have slow gut motility), bacteria in the large ... inflammation. Slow gut transit can also cause partially digested food to get stuck in the small intestine.

Queensland has the third highest prevalence of a debilitating bowel disease that impacts 180,000 Australians, costing ...

This groundbreaking development may enable treatments for inflammatory diseases such ... to the immune system of the small and large intestines — bypassing the liver upon systemic administration.

"Not only were we able to deliver an mRNA-based anti-inflammatory drug directly to the inflamed intestine and improve all markers of colitis and Crohn's disease, but we also transformed the immune ...