Small intestine lymphoma occurs when non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma affects the small intestine. It can cause abdominal pain, weight loss, and fever. Treatment involves chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation ...

SIBO is when bacteria that normally live in your colon start growing too much in your small intestine. Diagnosing SIBO is tricky. There’s no perfect test, and symptoms like bloating and gas can be ...

The gut microbiome is an important ecosystem of microbes that lives in each one of us, and its strength affects our overall health. However, the small intestine is an underappreciated part of the gut ...

What will you explore in your GGGH project? Our main goal is to begin deciphering the molecular communication between bacteria (and the small molecules they secrete) and host cells in the small ...

Small intestine cancer is a rare cancer that develops in the tissues of the small intestine, a 20-foot-long organ that ...

The US humorist Christopher Morley once described the human body as “an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing”. He wasn’t wrong: from our cardiovascular and lymphatic systems to our guts and urinary ...

Christopher Damman is on the scientific advisory board at Oobli, Supergut, and One BIO. Microbiome research to date has been much like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. How much can be ...

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 ...

An enteroscopy is a procedure that uses a flexible tube called an endoscope to examine inside the small intestine. Enteroscopy is a nonsurgical procedure to diagnose and manage conditions of the small ...

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