In the wee hours of the morning in a lab in Amherst, Massachusetts, geoscience graduate student Rob D’Anjou sat looking over test results, a pot of coffee nearby. He’d been pulling long days to ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient Romans Really Did Use Poop as Medicine. We Just Got The First Real Proof. Stool transplants are cutting-edge experimental ...
In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, scientists revealed that a precious bacterium, named B.infantis, has been declining in the last few years. The bacteria, found ...
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 ...
In the late 1950s, archaeologists discovered a cave in the Rio Zape Valley of Mexico. There were ancient human remains in the cave dated to between 660 and 1430 A.D., many of which belonged to ...
A small number of Canadian cancer patients are testing a pill that contains healthy bacteria from human poop to see if it can extend their lives. They’re taking the plunge. A small number of Canadian ...
It's not every day that one of the world's richest men walks on stage carrying a jar of human feces, but that's precisely what Bill Gates did in Beijing on Tuesday. The Microsoft founder was in China ...