http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...s-company-s-gut-bacteria-is-worth-1-9-billion
Seres doesn't have any revenue or products on the market. Its most promising candidate is a pill in mid-stage trials to treat Clostridium difficile, a type of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. That’s a nasty infection that spreads in hospitals among patients who have been treated with antibiotics that tend to wipe out both the healthy and harmful bacteria in their guts. Tough cases of C. diff. are sometimes treated with fecal transplants—yes, that means exactly what you think it does—to recolonize patients with beneficial gut flora.
Seres’s experimental therapy, which is in mid-stage human trials, would replace the stool transfer with a pill that’s derived from helpful human bacteria. Here’s how Bloomberg Businessweek described it last year:
Seres’s 10-milligram pill, called Ecobiotics, combines 5 to 15 purified bacterial strains into a two- to three-pill, once-a-day dose that appears to restore the equilibrium of the microbiome—the collection of organisms that live inside humans—and the health of the gut. ...
Seres doesn't have any revenue or products on the market. Its most promising candidate is a pill in mid-stage trials to treat Clostridium difficile, a type of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. That’s a nasty infection that spreads in hospitals among patients who have been treated with antibiotics that tend to wipe out both the healthy and harmful bacteria in their guts. Tough cases of C. diff. are sometimes treated with fecal transplants—yes, that means exactly what you think it does—to recolonize patients with beneficial gut flora.
Seres’s experimental therapy, which is in mid-stage human trials, would replace the stool transfer with a pill that’s derived from helpful human bacteria. Here’s how Bloomberg Businessweek described it last year:
Seres’s 10-milligram pill, called Ecobiotics, combines 5 to 15 purified bacterial strains into a two- to three-pill, once-a-day dose that appears to restore the equilibrium of the microbiome—the collection of organisms that live inside humans—and the health of the gut. ...
