What Is a Fecal Transplant? A fecal transplant is a procedure that places the stool of a healthy person into the colon of someone who’s ill. Your doctor may call it bacteriotherapy. A fecal ...

Researchers are exploring strategies to alter the gut microbiome to improve patients’ responses to immunotherapy. New ...

Fecal transplants may lead to remission in some people with ulcerative colitis (UC), although more research is needed. Medications and lifestyle modifications are other ways to manage the condition.

A Mississippi high school football coach has finally reached the end zone of his cancer fight thanks to a peculiar, experimental treatment. Tim Story was diagnosed at 49 with stage 3 small bowel ...

University of Rennes researchers have discovered that transplanting gut microbiota from elite athletes into mice improves ...

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a widespread bacterial infection associated with gastritis, peptic ulcers, and gastric cancer. While conventional ...

Highly experimental — and with no guarantee of success — the trial involved getting a so-called fecal transplant from a patient with advanced cancer who had been completely cured by immunotherapy.

In a small study, mice given fecal transplants from elite cyclists and soccer players had higher levels of glycogen, a key energy source.

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