According to Oliver Fiehn, a metabolomics researcher at the University of California, Davis, people are much more than meets the eye. “We are not just human,” he said. “We are an ecosystem.” The ...

A disease-detecting toilet capable of a range of monitoring and surveillance activities could soon be reality, and while the device may test for everything from how fast your urine flows to reporting ...

(David Izquierdo/Getty Images) Whether poop speeds through your gut like a bullet train or takes a more smell-the-roses ...

Most stool tends to sink to the bottom of your toilet bowl, but we've all had the occasional 'floater,' and of course science ...

U.S. health officials on Wednesday approved the first pill made from healthy bacteria found in human waste to fight dangerous gut infections — an easier way of performing so-called fecal transplants.

(Reuters) - Drugmakers racing to develop medicines and vaccines to combat a germ that ravages the gut and kills thousands have a new challenger: the human stool. For patients hit hardest by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in Switzerland plan to establish a vault for gut bacteria from around the world. A frozen stool sample in a small jar ...