New research shows that fecal transplants may boost the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy drugs called PD-1 inhibitors.

A new study from the Air Force Medical University, China shows that Sevoflurane (Sev) influences social functioning via the ...

A real-world study of patients with Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in Australia over 10 years shows that fecal ...

So, some doctors have taken to transplanting the microbes—all of them—straight from a healthy person’s stool to an unhealthy person’s gut, a process called fecal microbiota transplant (FMT). This can ...

Exposure to antibiotics during a key developmental window in infancy can stunt the growth of insulin-producing cells in the ...

Fecal microbiota transplantation isn’t nearly as gross as it sounds. First, stool samples are collected from prescreened health donors before being processed in a lab. During the standard ...

The process, called fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), involves taking stool from carefully screened healthy donors, processing it in the lab, and creating tasteless, odourless capsules ...

The role of the microbiome in the pathophysiology of and treatment of other diseases requires much further research and well-designed controlled trials before any manipulation of the fecal ...

difficile infections as an alternative to antibiotics and conventional fecal microbiota transplants. While it draws on the idea of human fecal transplants, a medical procedure where bacteria from ...

Clostridioides difficile infection is a major healthcare-associated infection, causing significant morbidity and mortality, ...

I knew I was kind of a guinea pig, but the only other option was staying at home, and I wasn’t going to make it,” Tim Story ...

The fecal transplant, combined with PD-1 inhibitors ... “They demonstrate that gut microbiota is contributing to immunotherapy resistance in at least some patients, and provide hope that ...