A new study reports that measurements that detect body fat are a more accurate predictor of mortality risk than body mass ...

Endotoxin testing is critical for quality control in drug production, as it has a direct impact on pharmaceutical safety and effectiveness. Traditionally Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) testing is used ...

Revolutionary fecal metabolite analysis shows 84% accuracy in predicting critical patient survival within 30 days ...

Fecal DNA Test Outperforms Fecal Occult Blood Test for Colorectal Cancer Screening . Journal Watch. 2005;4(1) Development of an effective, noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test has long ...

In the present study, we demonstrated that whether the gut microbiota and related metabolites contribute to the therapeutic effect of total sesquiterpenoids (TSs) from loquat leaves on obesity. A ...

"A diagnostic biomarker for IBD would be very impressive, but it would be even more impressive if we had a good biomarker ...

FIT stands for fecal immunochemical test. A FIT test screens for colorectal cancer by finding small amounts of blood in poop. There is no preparation or recovery, and you can take the test at home..

Ohio lawmakers want to bring back the Presidential Physical Fitness Test to the state's schools.. The proposal would require students in grades 1 through 12 to take an annual fitness exam modeled ...

The gut microbiome is known to be extensively involved in human health and disease. In order to reveal the metabolic relationship between host and microbiome, we monitored recovery of the gut ...

Fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) have been touted as a potential treatment for a variety of conditions, from inflammatory bowel diseases, obesity, and type 2 diabetes to autism.