Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a hereditary disease which, in addition to carrying a high risk of bowel cancer, also ...

People with the hereditary disease familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) have a greatly increased risk of developing a malignant tumor of the duodenum. Researchers have now discovered a mechanism in ...

They are densest at the beginning of the small intestine and begin to thin out toward the end. Covering the surface of each villus are mucus membranes made up of two types of cells: goblet cells ...

The answer appears to lie in the balance of microbes that live in our intestine—and a specific protein secreted by intestinal ...

Intestinal stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells, which in mammals reside in the base of the crypts of the adult intestine ... FGF1 driving ISC toward goblet cells.