Fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) can dramatically improve cancer treatment, suggest two groundbreaking studies published in ...

An Italian study published in Nature Medicine provides compelling evidence that fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) can ...

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 ...

Of the 20 patients in the lung cancer group, 80 per cent responded positively to immunotherapy after receiving fecal ...

The practice of using fecal transplants to treat severe and sometimes fatal infections — including recurrent Clostridium difficile — is on the rise, but more research on the long-term effects of the ...

A fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) not only cured a case of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection in a 66 year old man; it eliminated populations of multi-drug resistant organisms both in the ...

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. —D. H. Lawrence Yes, fecal transplants are a thing. And they are just as cringeworthy as you might imagine. But to ...

The idea sounds icky, but fecal microbiota transplants are helping patients with dangerous gut infections. One problem is ...

Canadian researchers report in studies out Wednesday that fecal microbiota transplants show promise at improving ...