The mouth starts the digestion process by breaking food down into a more easily digestible form. It does this through a combination of mechanical and chemical digestion. After people take food in ...

Fibre intake and the health of the human gut empowers key immune cells to act as “careful snipers” in protecting the body ...

Multicellular organisms are a mosaic of different cells, tissues, and systems, each with their own specific function and interactions with other cells within the organism and/or the larger environment ...

The immune cells that protect us from infection and cancer seek out a wide array of fuel sources to power their function - including some long thought to be cellular waste products. The findings, ...