We’ve learned a lot from FMTs, however as a therapeutic, there are clear drawbacks. First, pathogens can exist even in healthy fecal samples, and with those pathogens passed on to patients, safety ...

From Dechant Consulting Services, Field Marker Targets (FMTs) can be used with iWitness and iWitnessPRO photogrammetry software systems. FMTs are designed for law enforcement photogrammetric ...

Fecal microbiota transplants are the most effective and affordable treatment for recurrent infections with Clostridioides difficile, an opportunistic bacterium and the most common cause of ...

An emerging treatment for a common hospital-acquired infection could be (slightly) less gross in the future. Researchers have found that delivering a fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) in a pill—a poop ...

Findings from a small, proof-of-concept clinical trial have suggested that fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs) can boost the effectiveness of immunotherapy in a range of gastrointestinal cancers. In ...

When severe, chronic diarrhea strikes, sometimes the only cure is … more feces. It might seem bizarre, but a transplant of healthy human stool and its bacterial ecosystem can mean freedom from a ...

Scientists often seem to be on a quest for sacred chalices or sterling ammo. But a group of microbiologists has now set out on a more odorous odyssey—one to find fantastical feces. With data on poop’s ...