George Russell, a researcher at Boston Children's Hospital, has embarked on
similar clinical trials using FMT to treat ulcerative colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease.
Alan Flake at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in Pennsylvania is planning
a similar clinical trial of maternal stem cells in fetuses with sickle cell anemia, a painful, debilitating disease that often shortens life.
The research team had subjects complete a set of tasks commonly used in
similar clinical trials.
Chinese researchers at Sichuan University claimed to be the first to do ex vivo therapy with a handful of people with cancer last year, and University of Pennsylvania researchers are gearing up for
a similar clinical trial in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Houston this year.
Dr. Johnson was intrigued by the results of the ALS study and put together
a similar clinical trial for dogs.