While immunotherapy approaches to cancer treatment have had monumental benefits for cancer care, dichotomy in cohorts of patients who respond and do not respond to these modalities remains a ...

Changes in the way that humans live and eat have resulted in tremendous alterations in the gut microbiome, especially over the past few decades. These changes have been linked to increased rates of ...

Many pet owners know the importance of bringing a stool or fecal sample to their pets' regular veterinary checkups, but not everyone does it regularly after puppy and kitten stages have passed. The ...

The gut microbiome and the metabolites it produces offer promising insight into disease severity in critically ill patients. In a collaborative effort, researchers from the U.S. and the Netherlands ...

Banking samples of your own poop in your youth and then transplanting them back when you're old might be a key to healthy aging, scientists suggest. Stool samples frozen and stored when a person is ...

Share on Pinterest Could stool samples help researchers predict who is likely to develop Parkinson’s? Image credit: Zaharia_Bogdan/Getty Images. Researchers have investigated whether stool samples ...

Everyone's mailing in stool samples for a gut report, but can an at-home microbiome test actually tell you anything?