Viral claims about earning money from stool donation highlight growing awareness of fecal microbiota transplantation used to treat severe gut infections.

A new imaging approach used microscopic glowing tags to reveal gene activity in individual C. diff cells in gut tissue samples from infected mice. Here, a resulting image shows a round cross-section ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile - commonly known as C. diff - are a serious and persistent problem for patients and ...

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As melting snow reveals weeks’ worth of uncollected dog waste, frustration at the state of the sidewalks has boiled over. As melting snow reveals weeks’ worth of uncollected dog waste, frustration at ...

The city is currently a dog-shit nightmare. There’s no other way to say it. Dog owners seem to have taken January’s snowstorm as carte blanche to violate an already tenuous social contract: They have ...

Thirteen miles off the coast of Peru lies a trio of islands with mountainous piles of guano, nicknamed “white gold.” This seabird poop mixed with other waste is such a powerful nitrogen deposit that ...

Do as the Romans doo? It’s not just plumbing that the ancient Italians pioneered. Turkish scientists have found a 1,900-year-old Roman vial that could provide the first concrete evidence of human poop ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Soon, Portland’s big pipe won’t be the only water overflowing with poop. Two local businesses, Columbia Sportswear and Breakside Brewing, are teaming up for the Super Bowl to ...

There are an estimated 90 million dogs in America and they all eat, sleep and poop. It's how that last thing is handled that is the source of aggravation for some pet owners and nature lovers. The ...

The National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 150,000 people will receive a colorectal cancer diagnosis in 2025, and factors like gender, age, and family health history can increase your risk ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 76-year-old male who is in relatively good health. For the past six months, I have been experiencing diarrhea on and off. I initially spoke to my general physician, and he ...