From now on, US physicians and researchers will have to get approval from the FDA before they can perform a stool transplant.
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Fecal transplants outcompeted traditional antibiotics at curing a deadly intestinal infection.
Transplanting synthetic stool made of beneficial microbes cures deadly diarrheal infections in two patients.
Mice fed a mix of six strains of bacteria were able to fight a C. difficile infection that causes deadly diarrhea and is resistant to most types of treatment.
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