Scientists have created a new way to detect intestinal bleeding that takes just 20 minutes. That’s a major improvement over the usual 10 hour or more time frame. The trick? Bacteria packed inside tiny ...

A new Brazilian magnetic tracking technology aims to provide real-time, radiation-free evaluation of gastrointestinal transit in outpatient settings, potentially expanding access to functional testing ...

Advanced it is today, medicine is still a long way from becoming the science that has eradicated illness and made humans live much, much longer. That probably won't happen during our lifetimes, so ...

Some 95% of microbes remain mysterious because they can’t be grown in the lab. Yet researchers are keen to study these organisms and the potentially useful compounds they make. Tiny, semipermeable ...

The new capsule robots developed for medical applications can reportedly be swallowed by patients and steered using magnetic ...

Illustration of the mechanical design and workflow of the macabot. (a) Schematic of a multichamber capsule robot with four single-chamber capsules with decoupled opening directions. (b) Photograph of ...

There are so many reasons to love travel—the way it opens us up to the world, to each other, and to ourselves—but one consistently difficult aspect of travel is figuring out how to transport beauty ...

Nearly all PCI patients, even those at low risk of bleeding, develop at least some gastrointestinal injury when taking dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), according to data from the OPT-PEACE randomized ...

Scientists in Switzerland have built a robot as small as a grain of sand. Surgeons control it with magnets and move it through blood vessels to place medicine exactly where it is needed. Bradley J.