Most people think of stool as nothing more than bodily waste, something to be flushed away and forgotten. Yet in modern medicine, healthy human stool has become a powerful therapeutic tool capable of ...

Humans shed millions of these cells into the fecal stream every day. In the new study, the researchers found that the SRY gene responsible for the male-defining characteristics of Y chromosomes, along ...

A new study shows that oral fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a feasible and safe addition to preventing graft-versus-host disease in patients undergoing stem cell transplantation for blood ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday warned medical and scientific communities and other interested persons of the potential risk of transmitting multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs ...

In a novel study that identified male chromosome genetic material in the intestines of female patients undergoing fecal transplants, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have significantly ...