Healthy human stool is emerging as a vital medical resource, treating severe infections resistant to antibiotics. Faecal ...

In Switzerland, a bold initiative is underway: freezing human feces to preserve global biodiversity. However, this isn't just about safeguarding nature's diversity of plants and animals — human gut ...

Whether poop speeds through your gut like a bullet train or takes a more smell-the-roses approach could have more profound ...

U.S. health officials on Wednesday approved the first pill made from healthy bacteria found in human waste to fight dangerous gut infections — an easier way of performing so-called fecal transplants.

(Reuters) - Drugmakers racing to develop medicines and vaccines to combat a germ that ravages the gut and kills thousands have a new challenger: the human stool. For patients hit hardest by the ...

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A fecal lactoferrin test can detect intestinal inflammation. High lactoferrin levels in stool suggest that inflammation is present. This may indicate a bacterial infection or inflammatory bowel ...

Using stool samples from Viking latrines, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have genetically mapped one of the oldest human parasites – the whipworm. The mapping reflects the parasite's ...