Fecal transplants have proven to be highly effective for treating these infections, and those results have encouraged researchers to investigate other applications for this procedure.

Often called fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), this procedure involves specially prepared fecal samples from a healthy donor — one without UC or other digestive conditions — which is ...

Often called fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), this procedure involves specially prepared fecal samples from a healthy donor — one without UC or other digestive conditions — which is ...

From fecal transplants to phage cocktails, scientists reveal how gut viruses could unlock precision medicine for digestive diseases and beyond.

Root microbiomes contain microbes that help plants survive times of stress and may potentially improve crop yields in ...

Treatment of hyperphosphatemia is aimed at lowering serum phosphate levels via two means: (1) restricting dietary phosphorus intake; and (2) using, on a daily basis, and with each meal, oral phosphate ...

A fecal transplant performs as well as antibiotics in treating people with a bacterial infection that can cause life-threatening diarrhea, a new study says.

Fecal transplants have been used to treat a wide array of conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome, Parkinson's disease, obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

Fecal microbiota transplantation was not inferior to vancomycin for the treatment of primary Clostridioides difficile ...

But because fecal transplant addresses the root cause of the infection, researchers suspected it might be effective as a front-line treatment for C. difficile.