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In the fall of 2023, NIST’s scientists in Charleston, South Carolina, received a special shipment of containers packed with baggies full of frozen human feces. Teams of scientists there and at an ...

There’s a useful chart that can help you determine if your stool falls into a healthy or not-so-healthy category.

Viral claims about earning money from stool donation highlight growing awareness of fecal microbiota transplantation used to treat severe gut infections.

Throne, a startup based in Austin, has developed a toilet add-on that measures gut health through things like frequency, volume, and color of bowel movements.

The urge to poop occurs when your rectum fills up, triggering receptors in the anus to signal the brain: go poop. The longer the stool sits in the rectum, the more water is absorbed from it, making it ...