When parts of the small intestine are diseased or die, the treatment can involve surgically removing the affected tissue.

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When parts of the small intestine are diseased or die, the treatment can involve surgically removing the affected tissue. Although lifesaving, the procedure—referred to as a radical small bowel ...

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In this valuable study, the authors performed cell-specific ribosome pulldown to identify gene expression (translatome) differences in the anterior (NT1) vs middle & posterior (NT2-9) cells of the C.

In this short science video, I use a fun model to show just how long your small intestine actually is and why it is not very small at all. I stretch it out so you can see its full length, then compare ...