What At-Home Microbiome Tests Can (and Can’t) Tell You About Your Gut Health, According to Doctors

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

Often seen as waste, stool may yield clues to microbiome's role in cancer treatment

At Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine, scientists are investigating stool samples to uncover new insights into cancer treatment. Often seen as waste, stool may provide valuable ...
clinicaladvisor.com

Stool, Rectal Samples Detect Pathogens in Children With Isolated Vomiting

Young Girl Sitting On Bed At Home Feeling Nauseous A team of investigators assessed the presence of enteropathogens in children with isolated vomiting. Rectal swabs and stool samples identified an ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

A Comparison of the Value of the Rectal Swab and the Fecal Specimen in Culturing Stools

THE widespread use by the armed forces in recent years of the rectal-swab technic for obtaining material for stool culture, described by Hardy, Watt and DeCapito, 1 has emphasized the value of this ...

Why your gut microbiome test results could be completely wrong, according to a new 2026 NIST study

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