Intestinal tuft cells divide to make new cells when immunological cues trigger them. Additionally, in contrast to progenitor- and stem cells, tuft cells can survive severe injury such as irradiation ...

A new study reveals that age-related changes in the gut microbiota directly impair intestinal stem cell (ISC) function and that restoring a youthful microbial environment can reverse this decline.

Scientists in Zlín are developing an advanced model of the human small intestine. The main goal behind this effort is to ...

Stem Cell Reports, a research team from Cincinnati Children's and Ulm University in Germany demonstrates that transferring ...

Although the gut renews itself constantly, its stem cells accumulate age-related molecular changes that quietly alter how ...

A new study led by Hartmut Geiger at the University of Ulm , Germany, and Yi Zheng and Kodandaramireddy Nalapareddy, Cincinnati Children's Hospital ...

The human immune system is like an army of specialized soldiers (immune cells) each with a unique role to play in fighting disease. In a new study published in Nature, led by scientists at the Allen ...

“One day this technology will allow us to grow a section of healthy intestine for transplant into a patient,” said coauthor Michael Helmrath of Cincinnati Children's, in a press release. “But the ...

Abdominal fat is not a uniform tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, and ...