Without sufficient enzyme activity, nutrients may pass through the digestive system undigested, leading to deficiencies and digestive issues. Enzymes break down food into its basic components ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

Surgical management of a chronic genetic digestive disorder in a private hospital in the city has given hope of a normal life to a 12-year-old girl from Koppal district in north Karnataka.

A scientific discovery has brought a 520-million-year-old larva back to life in ways previously thought impossible. For the ...

Digestive disorders are conditions that occur when the digestive system does not function as it should. Traditionally, health experts split them into two categories: organic and functional GI ...

Researchers formally describe Helmetia expansa, offering new insights into its anatomy, behavior and evolutionary relationships.

“We are now sure she was a primitive marine arthropod, but her precise evolutionary relationships remain frustratingly elusive.” Sarah Gabbott, the study’s lead author and a professor in the School of ...

The human digestive system refers to the organs that take in food and break them down. Digestion describes the complex process that enables the nutrients in food to enter the body and its cells.

This fact has fascinated scientists for centuries. All insects are arthropods, but not all arthropods are insects. For instance, spiders, lobsters and millipedes are arthropods, but they’re not ...

The fossilized creature is one of the earliest ancestors of a group known as arthropods ... include a brain, “digestive glands, a primitive circulatory system and even traces of the nerves ...