OpenBiome: new non-profit offering hospitals prescreened faecal transplant samples for $250

[Sasha]

Very interesting new venture:

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/go...ank-feces?mc_cid=325756381e&mc_eid=4eb5c15eb3

 

[xchocoholic]

Interesting and funny article. I won't be "whipping up an enema of my freinds stool" for sure. Lol.

"Brown cross" ☺

Just out of curiousity. I wonder these are gluten free. ☺

Tc .. x

 

[snowathlete]

OpenBiome are now producing/supplying their poop-pills. Only for C-diff so far and mostly just for research, but it's a big step forward in my view. With ME/CFS being linked with the gut I do wonder if it would be possible for someone to setup a trial of these pills to see if they help people with ME/CFS.
http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2015/10/fecal-transplant-poop-pill

 

[adreno]

I'd definitely like to get my hands on some poop pills. How long before you can get this stuff on ebay?

 

[snowathlete]

I'd definitely like to get my hands on some poop pills. How long before you can get this stuff on ebay?

May never happen. Poop classed as drug by FDA...

 

[Sidereal]

Who knew a few years ago that healthy person crap would soon become a highly prized commodity.

 

[MeSci]

Who knew a few years ago that healthy person crap would soon become a highly prized commodity.

Yes indeed. A colleague and I, who always had to rush to the loo before blood-doning, joked about being able to donate what we had just excreted, viz. 'shit-doning', never dreaming that it would actually come to pass (excuse the pun).