Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Villi are tiny, hair-like projections and tissues composed of the cells lining your ...

This is all the nutrients your body needs to function properly and collect it ... intestine there are also specialised structures called villi which have a tiny hair-like structure poking into ...

As with amniocentesis, obstetricians may suggest using CVS, short for chorionic villus sampling, to detect genetic disorders such as Down Syndrome. In CVS, specialists perform an ultrasound to ...

Anirban Datta, Head of Discovery Biology at Verseon International Corporation, details recent breakthroughs in organoid ...

Real-time organoid morphology analysis. Using holotomography, it is possible to observe the lumen and villus development process of intestinal organoids in real time, which was difficult to ...

Furthermore, conditions such as bacterial overgrowth, coexistent small intestinal disease (inflammatory bowel disease, celiac sprue), pancreatic insufficiency, mucosal congestion and villus ...

Cedars-Sinai and UCLA investigators have studied first trimester placental tissue and found that for some genes, the process ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center say they have identified a gene pathway involving the mineral zinc in mice ...

The gut is also home to endocrine cells, which secrete many hormones that regulate bodily functions. These enteroendocrine cells (EECs, endocrine cells of the gut) are very rare cells that release ...

Whether motivated by curiosity or the burgeoning ‘sober curious’ movement, the benefits of a month without alcohol are both ...