DALLAS — One person’s waste could be another’s shot at fighting cancer. The idea may sound far-fetched, but it is gaining momentum in cancer care. Researchers are testing fecal microbiota transplants ...

A new Italian study published in Nature Medicine provides compelling evidence that fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) can enhance the effectiveness of immunotherapy in patients with ...

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

Researchers are testing whether fecal microbiota transplants can reduce side effects and boost cancer treatment response.

Supplementing the guts of older mice with poop from younger ones has revealed the key role microbes play in intestinal stem ...

In this phase 2 study, researchers explored whether fecal microbiota transplant could overcome resistance to immune checkpoint inhibition.

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

In this phase 2a study, researchers aimed to determine whether donor fecal microbiota transplantation improved survival in mRCC patients receiving immunotherapy.

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 ...

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 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 ...