You may be sitting on – so to speak – a very valuable asset that scientists would love to get their hands on: your poop. As well as blood, plasma and organs, you can now donate fecal samples to stool ...

The documentary features a woman named Daniell Koepke who talks about how she has found relief from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) by performing a DIY poop transplant at home, using her brother's ...

It may sound a little gross, but your poop could hold the key to saving lives. While many of us have been flushing it away ...

Saffron Cassaday, right, pictured with her husband and stool donor, Al Mukadam. Cassaday did fecal microbiota transplantation, which involves transferring stool from a healthy donor to a patient to ...

Scientists have discovered a groundbreaking potential treatment for Parkinson's disease from a very unlikely source: a stool transplant. Parkinson's is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects over 8 ...

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Fecal transplants are being tested/used for so many things. C diff infection. auto immune diseases, there's even interest in it's use in bone marrow transplant/leukemia as an adjuvant to making chemo ...

Share on Pinterest A small new trial suggests that stool transplants could be a helpful treatment option in early-stage Parkinson’s disease. Image credit: THIERRY ZOCCOLAN/Getty Images. Parkinson’s ...

One patient died and four were hospitalized after receiving OpenBiome stool transplants as a treatment for Clostridium difficile, the FDA said in a March 12 safety alert. In total, six patients ...

She completed advanced fellowships in hepatology/transplant and gastroenterology, with clinical expertise in colorectal ...

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. —D. H. Lawrence Yes, fecal transplants are a thing. And they are just as cringeworthy as you might imagine. But to ...