University of Rennes researchers have discovered that transplanting gut microbiota from elite athletes into mice improves ...

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 said.

New research shows that fecal transplants may boost the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy drugs called PD-1 inhibitors. The gut microbes can affect the immune system.

In a small study, mice given fecal transplants from elite cyclists and soccer players had higher levels of glycogen, a key energy source.

Highly experimental — and with no guarantee of success — the trial involved getting a so-called fecal transplant from a patient with advanced cancer who had been completely cured by immunotherapy.

After surgery and chemotherapy failed to eliminate his colon cancer four years ago, Mr Story joined a clinical trial for a highly experimental treatment: fecal transplant. He was to be given a ...

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 ...

tammykayphoto – stock.adobe.com Left with few viable paths, he enrolled in a highly experimental clinical trial in Houston that involved getting a fecal transplant from someone in the advanced ...

The following is a summary of “Trending Modalities in Type 2 Diabetes Prevention,” published in the February 2025 issue of Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism by Lundgrin & Hatipoglu. A ...

However, it’s not without risks. “To a certain extent, a fecal transplant is almost like going to the pharmacist where they take a little bit of everything off the shelf and put it into one pill, ...

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

One therapy that has proven effective, Bisanz said, is a fecal microbiota transplant, which is designed to restore a healthy balance of bacteria in the gut. However, it's not without risks.