Not exact matches
Mangalam and his team from Mayo Clinic — where all of the work was completed before Mangalam joined the UI in 2015 — conducted
microbiome analysis on
fecal samples collected from MS patients as well as
healthy control subjects.
Now a group of physicians have designed the
fecal treatment's first double - blind trial, in which neither patient nor researcher knows whether a placebo or a
healthy microbiome is being delivered to the ailing gut.
Transplants of
fecal bacteria from
healthy donors can help reset the
microbiome, the mix of bacteria in the body, and crowd out C. difficile.
The best cure that we know is
fecal microbiome transplantation from a
healthy donor.
Yes, says microbial ecologist Holly Ganz, PhD, co-founder and CEO of AnimalBiome, a company that analyzes the
microbiomes of dogs and cats and offers treatment in the form of
healthy fecal material in capsules.