Their discovery showed that even tucked away in our innards – in the walls of our stomachs, subjected to vinegar-like pH ...

If life exists on other planets, it needs to be adaptable to extreme environments. To get a clue of what it might look like, we can turn to a surprising place: the human gut.

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The human stomach maintains a delicate environment – naturally acidic to digest food properly, yet protected by a specialized mucous layer that prevents this acid from damaging the stomach itself.

The human stomach is one of the least hospitable environments on Earth. This dark, muscular cavity is filled with a noxious brew of hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes designed to rip apart ...

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 ...

However, he had to fight against the dogma that microorganisms could not grow in the highly acidic environment of the human stomach. Warren conducted his research alone until 1981, when he met ...

However, he had to fight against the dogma that microorganisms could not grow in the highly acidic enivronment of the human stomach. Warren conducted his research alone until 1981, when he met ...