Doctors have upended assumptions about a rare gut disorder by turning to one of medicine’s strangest tools, a transplant of ...

Tim Story, a high school football coach and teacher in Hattiesburg, Miss., was diagnosed with cancer in 2022. In the spring of 2022, Tim Story’s doctor told him that he likely had just months to live.

A team of Mayo Clinic researchers has developed an innovative computational tool that analyzes the gut microbiome, a complex ecosystem of trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microorganisms ...

Fecal microbiota transplant was noninferior to vancomycin as the initial treatment for C. diff in a randomized, open-label trial. Transplant showed slightly higher cure rates without recurrence and ...

Fecal transplants have been successfully used to treat gastrointestinal conditions. Researchers are currently studying whether they may also be used for weight loss and other metabolic issues. A fecal ...

Frozen fecal matter is just as effective as fresh fecal matter when using fecal microbiota transplantation to treat Clostridium difficile infection, a clinical trial has shown, according to a WebMD ...

Scientific research continues to uncover interesting connections between the gut microbiome and human health, including everything from depression to PTSD to autoimmune disease. Another example of ...

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University have found fecal transplants may be helpful in reducing drinking behaviors in those suffering severe alcohol use disorder (AUD). The work points to a ...

What is the gut virome? The gut virome is a diverse community of viruses that inhabit the intestinal ecosystem. The gut virome is dominated by bacteriophages that infect and regulate bacteria, along ...