Mail-in stool kits such as Colorguard can detect warning signs, but gastroenterologists say a colonoscopy is still the most ...

At-home gut microbiome tests are growing in popularity, marketed as tools to unlock insights into digestion, immunity and ...

Pancreatic elastase is the digestive enzyme the pancreas produces to help digest food. Doctors can measure elastase levels by testing a stool sample. Low levels could indicate exocrine pancreatic ...

Park Seung-min, an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore’s School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, is preparing to commercialize the world’s first “smart ...

AIG Hospitals is developing smart toilets to automatically collect and analyse urine and stool samples for continuous health monitoring. The hospital is also setting up a Gut Microbial Laboratory, hig ...

Quality assurance is a particular issue with guaiac fecal occult blood testing (gFOBT): Sensitivity and specificity appear highly dependent on brand, sample collection, preparation, and interpretation ...

Our bodies are inhabited by trillions of microorganisms, with specific microbes unique to each individual. Through experimentation, scientists have pinpointed certain factors that account for ...