Adults with kidney cancer who received faecal microbiota transplants on top of their existing drugs did better than those who had placebo transplants as their add-on intervention ...

Of the 20 patients in the lung cancer group, 80 per cent responded positively to immunotherapy after receiving fecal ...

The idea sounds icky, but fecal microbiota transplants are helping patients with dangerous gut infections. One problem is ...

Fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) can dramatically improve cancer treatment, suggest two groundbreaking studies published in ...

Two new studies highlight the potential of fecal microbiota transplantation as a boon to cancer immunotherapy.

An Italian study published in Nature Medicine provides compelling evidence that fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) can ...

As well as blood, plasma and organs, you can now donate fecal samples to stool banks for research and use in transplants. One scientist from the University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW Sydney) has ...

Tim Story, a high school football coach and teacher in Hattiesburg, Miss., was diagnosed with cancer in 2022. In the spring of 2022, Tim Story’s doctor told him that he likely had just months to live.

Four things you need to know: 1. A team of researchers led by Michael Bretthauer, MD, PhD, a gastroenterologist at the University of Oslo in Norway, conducted the study at six Norwegian hospitals ...

A newly identified metabolite in human feces improves immunotherapy and could radically change the treatment of lung cancer.

A single fecal transplantation is not more effective than the existing standard of care — administration of oral vancomycin taper — for treating patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection ...