Everyone's mailing in stool samples for a gut report, but can an at-home microbiome test actually tell you anything?

Scientists blended one sample, split it, and shipped it out. What came back exposed a problem the whole industry shares.

Before you overhaul your diet based on a stool test, here's what actually moves your gut health, no kit required.

At-home microbiome tests are having a moment. You mail in a stool sample and get back a report on your gut bacteria, along ...

Isolated REM-sleep behavior disorder is a condition that can provide an indication of Parkinson's disease well in advance. A research team headed by Professor Dr. Erdem Gültekin Tamgüney from Heinrich ...

Share on Pinterest Could stool samples help researchers predict who is likely to develop Parkinson’s? Image credit: Zaharia_Bogdan/Getty Images. Researchers have investigated whether stool samples ...

A patient’s stool sample, containing information about the gut microbiome, can be used to diagnose nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, according to a study published in the journal Cell Metabolism.

Banking samples of your own poop in your youth and then transplanting them back when you're old might be a key to healthy aging, scientists suggest. Stool samples frozen and stored when a person is ...

A multi-institutional team of specialists is using artificial intelligence to diagnose parasitic infections in patients by scanning stool samples. Their study is published in the open-access journal ...

Changes in the way that humans live and eat have resulted in tremendous alterations in the gut microbiome, especially over the past few decades. These changes have been linked to increased rates of ...