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I read it from beginning to end. The only place the word intesting appears in the sentence "One company wants to use it to test whether a biscuit can release a specific nutrient in the small intestine."

The opening sentence states "British scientists have built what they say is the world's first artificial stomach ..." AND later goes on to say "The model gut's focus on the physical and chemical reactions that take place in the stomach promises to provide a more detailed understanding of food structure and its impact on digestion". AND "With a capacity about half the size of an actual stomach, the artificial gut can "eat" roughly 24 ounces of food. To date, the most substantial meal it's enjoyed is vegetable soup."

In fact, if you look at some non-US news items or go to the web site of the institution that built it you will see they report it as an 'artifical stomach".
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/11/11/296821/Scientists_build_1st_artificial_stomach.htm
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/first-artificial-stomach-has-a-real-gut-instinct/2006/11/11/1162661949475.html

The word 'gut' does not imply the intestine in this particular model. The normal use of the word 'gut' would imply the intestines too.

So how do you figure that it included a 'model intestine' too?

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