Medical research

uBiome project seeking to sequence the human microbiome

(Medical Xpress)—Three health researchers have set up a project called uBiome, on the crowd sourcing site indiegogo, with the aim of sequencing the human microbiome—microbes that live on and in the human body. The purpose ...

Medical research

Severe hepatitis outbreak linked to common childhood viruses

A new UC San Francisco-led study brings scientists closer to understanding the causes of a mysterious rash of cases of acute severe hepatitis that began appearing in otherwise healthy children after COVID-19 lockdowns eased ...

Oncology & Cancer

Bowel screening reduces cancer deaths by more than 25 per cent

(Medical Xpress) -- Bowel screening reduces the number of deaths from bowel cancer in Scotland by more than 25 per cent, according to research* presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Using AI to spot parasites in stool samples

A multi-institutional team of specialists is using artificial intelligence to diagnose parasitic infections in patients by scanning stool samples. Their study is published in the open-access journal PLOS Neglected Tropical ...

Oncology & Cancer

New method for early detection of colon cancer

A new, highly sensitive method to detect genetic variations that initiate colon cancer could be readily used for noninvasive colon cancer screening, according to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal ...

Gastroenterology

FDA approves first pill for fecal transplant therapy

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first pill form of fecal microbiota—similar to what's known as fecal transplant therapy—to treat the bacterial infection Clostridioides difficile, one of ...

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