Feb 14th 2014, 14:22, by Ellis Hamburger
When antibiotics can't kill the bacteria in your gut, someone else's poop sometimes can. When pit against certain breeds of intestinal bacteria like C. difficile, which causes 14,000 deaths per year in the US, fecal transplants can be 90 percent effective — but where do you find a donor? The US Food and Drug Administration doesn't make it easy, since feces is considered a drug. That's where OpenBiome comes in, a nonprofit started by two graduate students at Princeton and MIT. For just $250, the company will provide hospitals with fecal samples on demand, reports ScienceNews.
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