Sunday, January 13, 2013

Invention of the day

Pseudo poo
Elaine Petrof and Gregory Gloor from Kingston General Hospital in Ontario developed a kind of "pseudo-poo," a blend of 33 different gut bacteria that mimics the community of microorganisms found in a healthy gut. "This 'stool substitute' can be cooked up again and again according to the same recipe, and infused into patients without any of the extra faecal matter that makes such transplants so viscerally off-putting or potentially dangerous. Think of it as a rectally applied yoghurt," National Geographic said.

This is to treat C. Difficile intestinal infection, caused by an overgrowth of this bacteria after antibiotics kill off your normal intestinal germs.

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