ORLANDO -- Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) reported mostly favorable responses with the use of mail-order kits for stool sample collections, according to a survey study. Among survey ...

A multi-institutional team of specialists is using artificial intelligence to diagnose parasitic infections in patients by scanning stool samples. Their study is published in the open-access journal ...

Share on Pinterest Could stool samples help researchers predict who is likely to develop Parkinson’s? Image credit: Zaharia_Bogdan/Getty Images. Researchers have investigated whether stool samples ...

A clinical trial conducted in Tanzania and Mozambique and published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases concludes that expanding the use of diagnostic tests not based on sputum samples to detect ...

Banking samples of your own poop in your youth and then transplanting them back when you're old might be a key to healthy aging, scientists suggest. Stool samples frozen and stored when a person is ...

A patient’s stool sample, containing information about the gut microbiome, can be used to diagnose nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, according to a study published in the journal Cell Metabolism.

A search through decades-old frozen infant stool samples has yielded rich dividends for scientists. They have customized a laboratory technique to screen thousands of samples for norovirus, a major ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Fecal samples identified differences in the gut microbiota of children with autism. The findings indicate that ...

Changes in the way that humans live and eat have resulted in tremendous alterations in the gut microbiome, especially over the past few decades. These changes have been linked to increased rates of ...