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Microbiome studies have yielded hundreds of ideas for ways to detect and influence human health, but the field struggles with reproducibility challenges that hamper bringing these goals to fruition. Identical tubes of fecal matter should help.

An all-in-one system simplifies stool collection and stabilizes DNA for microbiome profile analysis.

A study of human populations around the world detects differing rates of horizontal gene transfer in the microbiome depending on what kind of society those people live in.

The microbiome-testing company made misleading claims about its prospects and about its business strategy, which allegedly relied on fooling doctors into ordering unnecessary tests, according to the US government.

The BioCollective, a company that transforms whole stool samples into microbial metadata, is developing the US’s first national microbiome reference material.

From now on, US physicians and researchers will have to get approval from the FDA before they can perform a stool transplant.

Transplanting synthetic stool made of beneficial microbes cures deadly diarrheal infections in two patients.