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OPENBIOME STOOL BANK. "However, an extensive medical screening is required for potential donors. Of the first 1,000 people to apply to the program, just 40 met the requirements." https://lnkd.in/ewE3GRU View in LinkedIn

OPENBIOME STOOL BANK "pays donors $40 per sample, plus a $50 bonus for those who donate five times a week. A person providing samples five days a week could earn $13,000 a year from the company." https://lnkd.in/ewE3GRU View in LinkedIn

WIDESPREAD INTEREST. The Cleveland Clinic, John's Hopkins and other major universities all have active FMT programs. https://lnkd.in/ewXZCsD View in LinkedIn

DEFENSIVE ROLE. "D-amino oxidase (DAO) is a hydrogen peroxide-generating enzyme that uses D-amino acids as a substrate...DAO, together with myeloperoxidase, may play an important role in antibacterial systems in mammals." https://lnkd.in/efhXMP9 View in LinkedIn

MAYO FMT PROTOCOL. "If something goes wrong with nasogastric insertion, the complications could be disastrous....and implanting stool in the small bowel might lead to bacterial overgrowth...the terminal ilium is the optimal site" by colonoscopies infusion. https://lnkd.in/ewXZCsD View in LinkedIn

COMPLEX DISEASES clearly need more than single molecules to restore health. Like all disruptive treatments, change will be resisted, regulations need adjusting, and data needs to be gathered. View in LinkedIn

THE PROMISE OF POOP. "Gastroenterologist Thomas Borody...who since 1988 has performed fecal transplants in more than 3000 patients, suffering not just from C. difficile but also from irritable bowel syndrome; inflammatory bowel syndrome; constipation; arthritis; and sacroiliitis, an inflammation of the sacroiliac joint." https://lnkd.in/ebyCPji View in LinkedIn

THIS CONCLUDES this weekend's fragment in nature on Fecal Microbiota Treatments. This approach is a revival of old methods, similar to renewed interest in phage therapy. Equally, stem cell therapies are opening new doors in disease treatments. View in LinkedIn

FMT "heralds the delayed adolescence of a broad and exciting new branch of human therapeutics." 2013 Editorial in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. A sea change. https://lnkd.in/e92WcxV View in LinkedIn

INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE AND FMT. "FMT is a safe but variably efficacious treatment for IBD. More randomized controlled trials are needed." https://lnkd.in/e9devNP View in LinkedIn