Wow – fascinating story by David Glenn in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Student-Led Project Banks on Promise of Fecal Transplants – Research – The Chronicle of Higher Education. The article tracks the story of Carolyn Edelstein and Mark B. Smith and James Burgess who have created a feces bank called OpenBiome to provide materials for fecal transplants.
Some related posts of mine:
- Transfaunation and Fecal Transplants: What Goes Around Comes Around, Literally and Figuratively
- Just in time for #ASM2013 – FDA adding regulations for fecal transplants #microbiome
- More (you know you wanted it) on fecal transplants and the microbiome
- Must read microbiome paper of the month: defined microbioata treatment of Cdiff infections
- Got poo?: Clinical trial on fecal transplants (aka fecal bacteriotherapy) to treat C. difficult infections
- Fecal transplants taken up by American Hospital Association in letter to HHS about Medicare/Medicaid
- Yes, Colbert did indeed discuss Fecal Transplants #microbeRule
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