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 chewed ...

Here’s what happens to foods and beverages as they make their way through your gastrointestinal tract — and the problems that can develop along the way. You know what food looks like when it enters ...

Gail Bornhorst designed and built this machine to simulate human digestion, hoping to provide information that will help people decide which foods and preparation methods are best for their health.

Researchers have discovered microplastics and nanoplastics in the human brain, reproductive organs, and other vital systems.

DR CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN:If I said to you that inside your body right about here there's an organ that's longer than the average family car, you'd say that I was lying. Well I'm not, and I was lucky ...

Dietary fats must be digested into fatty acids and monoacylglycerols prior to absorption. In adults, colipase-dependent pancreatic triglyceride lipase (PTL) contributes significantly to fat digestion.

Tourists visiting an unfamiliar city would have a hard time finding their way around if they were using nothing but a topological map, no matter how detailed. Most tourist maps, therefore, highlight ...

How do humans digest food? It’s a complicated question, with no easy answer. But in a food engineering lab at UC Davis, a mechanical digestive system is churning out information that may help solve ...