How (and Why) to Make a Pill Out of Poop
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The latest clinical trials for poop pills that can fight a gut infection failed. But that's no reason to flush this research down the toilet.
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The Journal of Infectious Diseases: A Novel Microbiome Therapeutic Increases Gut Microbial Diversity and Prevents Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection: http://bit.ly/2bvCrdL
The New England Journal of Medicine: Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States: http://bit.ly/2b0Umc3
Seres Therapeutics Press Release: http://bit.ly/2b0Ty6S
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Host, Writer, Animator
Anna Rothschild
Camera, Editor
Sara Tewksbury
Through Woodland
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Footage and Images
Original Footage
©WGBH Educational Foundation 2016
Clostridium difficile
CDC
IMG_1760 (dog behind)
Flickr/50-phi
Super nose
Flickr/montillon.a
Energinzing?
Flickr/Patrik Nygren
SalmonellaNIAID
Wikimedia Commons/NIAID
Norovirus
CDC/Charles D. Humphrey
Candida albicans PHIL 3192 lores
Wikimedia Commons/CDC/Dr. William Kaplan
Giardia intestinalis (259 17)
Wikimedia Commons/Doc. RNDr. Josef Reischig, CSc.
HK Chai Wan IVE 藥劑實驗室 Pharmaceutical Science Laboratory 糖衣 Sugar coated Room 516
Wikimedia Commons/Chlaborewan
FMTvials
Wikimedia Commons/Cjc2nd
SFX
Cockroaches
Freesound/StateAardvark
(used with permission from author)
Squeak Pack/squeak_10
Freesound/Corsica_S
Short fart 01
Freesound/dsisstudios
Wink
Freesound/bennychico11
Marker Writing on Paper
Freesound/ftpalad
Produced by WGBH for PBS Digital Studios
Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/
↓Want more info?↓
The Journal of Infectious Diseases: A Novel Microbiome Therapeutic Increases Gut Microbial Diversity and Prevents Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection: http://bit.ly/2bvCrdL
The New England Journal of Medicine: Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States: http://bit.ly/2b0Umc3
Seres Therapeutics Press Release: http://bit.ly/2b0Ty6S
--
Host, Writer, Animator
Anna Rothschild
Camera, Editor
Sara Tewksbury
Through Woodland
Music Provided by APM
Footage and Images
Original Footage
©WGBH Educational Foundation 2016
Clostridium difficile
CDC
IMG_1760 (dog behind)
Flickr/50-phi
Super nose
Flickr/montillon.a
Energinzing?
Flickr/Patrik Nygren
SalmonellaNIAID
Wikimedia Commons/NIAID
Norovirus
CDC/Charles D. Humphrey
Candida albicans PHIL 3192 lores
Wikimedia Commons/CDC/Dr. William Kaplan
Giardia intestinalis (259 17)
Wikimedia Commons/Doc. RNDr. Josef Reischig, CSc.
HK Chai Wan IVE 藥劑實驗室 Pharmaceutical Science Laboratory 糖衣 Sugar coated Room 516
Wikimedia Commons/Chlaborewan
FMTvials
Wikimedia Commons/Cjc2nd
SFX
Cockroaches
Freesound/StateAardvark
(used with permission from author)
Squeak Pack/squeak_10
Freesound/Corsica_S
Short fart 01
Freesound/dsisstudios
Wink
Freesound/bennychico11
Marker Writing on Paper
Freesound/ftpalad
Produced by WGBH for PBS Digital Studios
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