Anatomist, Claire Smith, is showing me a real human digestive system. 'It's a vast, alien-looking mass of tubes. 'And this is the stomach.' DR CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN:I guess I thought it would be a ...

Dr. J. G. Blunting has published some very interesting and useful facts in relation to the digestion of food in the human stomach, deduced from his experiments with St. Martin, the man with an ...

The stomach muscles help to mix and break the food down by churning it around. The stomach is an important organ in the digestive system. After food has been chewed in the mouth and swallowed ...

We spoke with Mary Roach about her unusual story that explains the absolute limit a human stomach can hold before it bursts. You can read more about Roach's peculiar inquiries on the US Military ...

The study results provide new avenues for exploring whether eliminating this bacterium from the human body could reduce ... It survives in the stomach's acidic environment by producing an enzyme ...