People who are infected with chlamydia can transmit these bacteria to other people during unprotected sex. The pathogens usually cause no symptoms, or only mild symptoms at first, such as itching in ...

While in vivo animal models are commonly employed for pharmacokinetic studies, they are often expensive, low in throughpu,t and typically fail to accurately replicate key characteristics of the human ...

A team led by Prof. Dr. Dirk Haller has demonstrated for the first time that defective mitochondria cause injuries in the intestinal epithelium and influence the microbiome. In this microscopic image ...

A novel 3D-printed confined culture system has enabled researchers to generate larger, more advanced human gastrointestinal ...

A multi-institutional group of researchers led by the Hubrecht Institute and Roche's Institute of Human Biology has developed strategies to identify regulators of intestinal hormone secretion. In ...

Researchers have advanced colon-on-a-chip models to deepen studies of inflammatory bowel disease. Chips included two types of ...

A miniaturized, biomimetic model of the human intestine successfully reproduced long-term enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) infection, report researchers from Science Tokyo. Using this innovative platform, ...

Researchers at Cincinnati Children's report a breakthrough manufacturing advance that makes human gut organoids faster to ...

In the realm of in vitro three-dimensional (3D) culture technologies, particularly organoids, recent advancements have brought about significant changes in the creation of more physiologically ...