A new discovery regarding the human intestinal mesentery may radically change the fundamentals of anatomy and embryology and related surgical approaches. The mesenery is an obscure structure in the ...

For many years, scientists have debated whether the ‘gut mesentery’, a fan-shaped, double-layered membrane in the human abdominal cavity, is a single entity. Using a revised method of dissection, an ...

The large intestine absorbs water and nutrients from food waste. Constipation, diarrhea, and hemorrhoids commonly affect the ...

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 ...