Fecal microbiota transplantation is an emerging strategy for modulating the gut microbiome to influence immunotherapy ...

A non-randomized clinical trial examining the safety and acceptability of fecal microbiota transplantation in long-term acute care hospital patients revealed that the intervention is safe and ...

Her son had been sick for four months when Blanca Morales started asking about a transplant. It had started with a case of strep throat from Mundo’s first-grade class — routine enough, treatable with ...

A trio of new studies, published simultaneously last month in Nature Medicine, add to growing evidence that manipulating the gut microbiome may enhance responses to immunotherapy in selected patients ...

Fecal microbiome transplant (FMT) produced mixed results for stimulating response to immunotherapy in advanced melanoma, according to two preliminary studies. In one trial, a donor FMT plus a PD-1 ...

(Reuters) -Nestle Health Science will buy the rights to Seres Therapeutics' Vowst, the companies said on Thursday, gaining access to the first ever pill alternative to fecal transplants for a deadly ...

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), shown to be effective in the treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), also shows significant benefit in the treatment of primary CDI, ...

What is the gut virome? The gut virome is a diverse community of viruses that inhabit the intestinal ecosystem. The gut virome is dominated by bacteriophages that infect and regulate bacteria, along ...

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. —D. H. Lawrence Yes, fecal transplants are a thing. And they are just as cringeworthy as you might imagine. But to ...

Prompt treatment with fecal transplant can improve survival among critically ill C. difficile patients 14 of 18 patients with life-threatening C. diff survived after a fecal transplant Antibiotics ...

After deciding in June 2013 to begin fast-tracking fecal transplant procedures by scrapping an earlier requirement that would have mandated an approved Investigational New Drug (IND) application, the ...