It may sound a little gross, but your poop could hold the key to saving lives. While many of us have been flushing it away ...

You may be sitting on – so to speak – a very valuable asset that scientists would love to get their hands on: your poop. As well as blood, plasma and organs, you can now donate fecal samples to stool ...

When most people think about donating body parts to science or medicine, they might think of life-saving donations of organs, ...

Historically scientists have thought it unlikely that gut microbes affect physiological sleep regulation. The recent study, ...

Sleep is one of the essential physiological needs for human survival, alongside food, water and air. But sleep is socially driven, influenced by ...

Evidence links the gut microbiota and fertility to women’s reproductive health, influencing hormone metabolism, and conditions such as PCOS.

Koala populations in Australia are threatened by the loss of their natural habitat and their preferred food source, ...

Recent advances in neuroscience and microbiology have illuminated the bidirectional communication between the ...

Advanced melanoma patients receiving FMT with immunotherapy showed a median overall survival of 53 months, exceeding typical immunotherapy outcomes. Gastrointestinal side effects from FMT were ...