At least 50% of human faeces is made up of bacteria shed from the gut The make-up of the bacteria found in human faeces may influence levels of dangerous fat in our bodies, say researchers from King's ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Metabolism, researchers presented a method to quantify food-derived deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in human stool metagenomes using a computationally ...

Fertilisers derived from recycled human urine and faeces are just as safe and effective as conventional ones, according to tests on cabbage plants. Using human waste in this way could help alleviate ...

Scientists studying 1,300-year-old human faeces from the Cave of the Dead Children in Mexico have discovered that people dealt with nasty infections more than a millennium ago - changing how ...