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 ...

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.

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 ...