New research shows that fecal transplants may boost the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy drugs called PD-1 inhibitors.

I knew I was kind of a guinea pig, but the only other option was staying at home, and I wasn’t going to make it,” Tim Story ...

You’ve probably heard of fecal transplants – an increasingly common medical procedure where doctors transfer stool from a healthy donor to a sick patient. Despite sounding unsettling ...

In a new Netflix documentary, Danielle Koepke attempts to rebalance the bacteria in her gut by ingesting fecal transplant pills from her brother's stools Jordan Greene is Society and Culture ...

Two cancer patients were successfully treated with fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs) for colitis caused by immunotherapy, according to a case report published today (November 12) in Nature Medicine.

Fecal transplants are being heralded as a simple cure for a dangerous and growing intestinal infection. But their future is uncertain. The answer to her woes, it turns out, was feces. Oakland ...

Sebastian Kaulitzki – stock.adobe.com Early studies suggest that fecal transplants delivered via an oral capsule known as LND101 could alter the microbial composition of tumors and make the body ...

So, some doctors have taken to transplanting the microbes—all of them—straight from a healthy person’s stool to an unhealthy person’s gut, a process called fecal microbiota transplant (FMT). This can ...

Tim Story's advanced small bowel cancer was considered terminal -- until an experimental trial involving fecal transplants and immunotherapy cured him.