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Yes, you read that right—your poop could be worth serious cash! In this video, we uncover how some people are making up to $180,000 a year simply by donating stool samples. But that’s just the ...

Elaine Powers first became interested in studying coprophagy—the practice of eating feces—when she was teaching high school ...

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A new study shows that oral fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a feasible and safe addition to preventing graft-versus ...

Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Physiology, Indiana ...

Care must be taken to ensure the stool is not mixed with urine or with water from the toilet. A healthcare provider may give directions on the best way to take the sample. In the case of diarrhea, ...

Fecal impaction occurs when stool forms that is hard, dry, and difficult to pass on its own. Individuals who experience constipation are more at risk of fecal impaction, which is more severe. When an ...

Feces don’t get enough credit as food. The stinky stuff is not just an end product after food gets eaten, digested and finally discarded by animal guts. Poop can also be something nutritious ...

On his first trip to the Delaware Bay in 1985, Webster and his team found that 20 percent of the bird poop samples they brought back with them contained influenza viruses, and they realized the ...

In 2022, he set up the first pediatric stool bank in Canada. Since then, the bank has stored more than 150 samples and completed five FMT procedures in children. Pai is collaborating with other ...