Harvard researchers make the case for people storing their poop when young, in order to restore their gut microbiomes later in life. Reading time 3 minutes Experts at Harvard and elsewhere are ...

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The phrase ‘poo transplant’ might sound more like the punchline of a 10-year-old’s joke than a genuine medical procedure. Faecal microbiota transplants, (FMTs) to give them their technical name, ...

[email protected] receives funding from the National Institute of Health Research. So-called “poo transplants” have reached an important milestone with the publication of a new UK guideline that ...

Most people would not call a 45-minute commute just to use someone else’s restroom their “dream job.” But most people are not Alana Castro. “My family jokes about how I have always been fascinated ...

Minnie Hatch, 29, from Salt Lake City, had painful stomach cramps, and other symptoms for months before finding out she had Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff. These bacteria can grow out of control ...