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 ...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a human stool reference material that will help scientists accurately measure the gut microbiome. The initiative aims to speed ...
Most people think of stool as nothing more than bodily waste, something to be flushed away and forgotten. Yet in modern medicine, healthy human stool has become a powerful therapeutic tool capable of ...