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 ...

In Switzerland, a bold initiative is underway: freezing human feces to preserve global biodiversity. However, this isn't just about safeguarding nature's diversity of plants and animals — human gut ...

Most people think of stool as nothing more than bodily waste, something to be flushed away and forgotten. Yet in modern medicine, healthy human stool has become a powerful therapeutic tool capable of ...

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.