The human body has several distinct microbiomes—on the skin, in the mouth and in our airways—but the most consequential ... Eric Pamer showed that cancer patients with greater gut microbiome diversity ...

Gut microbiota plays a critical role in childhood obesity by influencing energy metabolism, inflammation, and appetite ...

A stool transplant - or to give it its full title "a faecal microbiota transplant" - aims to repopulate the patient's gut with the microbes from a healthy person. A relative is often used as they ...

As scientific researchers continue to investigate the complexities of the skin microbiome, our mission for the 2nd Microbiome Movement – Skin Health & Dermatology Summit is simple ...

The current areas of intestinal microbiome research are presented in Box 1. With the ongoing work of the Human Microbiome Project, additional characterization of the intestinal microbiota in IBD ...

Fortunately these patients now have another option – Faecal Microbiota Transplant, or FMT. FMT is where poo from a healthy individual is implanted into the gut of a patient, often by colonoscopy.

There was improvement in the Irritable Bowel Syndrome Impact Scale score, from 108 to 140 with fecal microbiota transplant and from 77 to 92 with placebo. HealthDay News — For patients with type ...

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2013;7(7):615-628. Infusion via colonoscopy offers the ability to deliver larger volumes of donor stool to the proximal colon, including into the terminal ileum ...