We spatiotemporally pattern these cues using photoinduced degradation, viscoelasticity, and bond formation to study how intestinal stem cell colonies respond to alterations in geometric confinement, ...

Pythons may hold the answer to another way to regrow our guts, a group of researchers led by the University of Texas at ...

The epithelial lining of our intestine is organized in a crypt-villi architecture and serves many essential functions including maintenance of barrier, digestion and nutrient absorption. Due to the ...

ISCs reside in a functionally defined 'niche' at the base of the crypt. The human intestine is home to a variety of microorganisms that live in a mutually beneficial state with the host.

Previous investigations have demonstrated that lactoferrin in human colostrum stimulates thymidine uptake into the DNA of harvested mature rat intestinal crypt cells. The effect of cow milk- and ...

Researchers in Michael Sigal's lab at the Max Delbruck Center and Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin have discovered the ...