Costly treatments from Merck & Co and other drugmakers, and a vaccine from Sanofi, are on the horizon. But growing numbers of gastroenterologists are more excited about the use of human stool ...

A for-profit Massachusetts biotech company is expanding into Tempe and has an unusual ask for the community: It needs their poop. Seres Therapeutics, which will open Thursday a new 11,845-square-foot ...

In the fall of 2023, NIST’s scientists in Charleston, South Carolina, received a special shipment of containers packed with baggies full of frozen human feces. Teams of scientists there and at an ...

The urgent need for human stool donations to treat chronic gut infections could soon be eased with innovative research to develop artificial super stool. The collaborative research aims to create a ...

SEATTLE – Scientists have developed a breakthrough method to track diet using stool metagenomic data. Developed by researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), the new method, called MEDI ...

To better understand how microbes affect our health, researchers combined 119 species of bacteria naturally found in the human body. By Carl Zimmer Our bodies are home to hundreds or thousands of ...

According to Oliver Fiehn, a metabolomics researcher at the University of California, Davis, people are much more than meets the eye. “We are not just human,” he said. “We are an ecosystem.” The ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough method to track diet using stool metagenomic data. Developed by researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), the new method, called MEDI ...