Your digestive system starts its job even before you eat your first bite. The digestive system consists of the parts of the body that work together to turn food and liquids into the building ...

This film explores the complex process of human digestion, detailing how food is broken down into molecules by the digestive system. It follows the journey of food from the mouth, where it is ...

He would need an artificial digestive system to do so, per co-authors Falk J. Tauber (University of Freiberg) and Barry W. Fitzgerald (Eindhoven University of Technology).

The name of the diversity jar gives a clear hint as to what it is. It is a jar filled with various shelf-stable ingredients ...

Researchers at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have reached important milestones in their quest to engineer replacement tissue in the lab to treat digestive system conditions.

The digestive system is the series of tubelike organs that convert our meals into body fuel. There are about 30 feet (9 meters) of these convoluted pipeworks, starting with the mouth and ending ...

Every Monday Science Trek releases a new video that introduces children to math, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) career potentials in a fun, informative way.

In a recent study published in Science Robotics, a team of researchers led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a robotic drug capsule, which they dub “RoboCap”, designed ...

Did you know that some animals don't have stomachs, or the reason why flatulence smells bad? Here are 11 surprising facts about the digestive system.