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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Gretchen Kuda Kroen. Got a minute?
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2 .When normal populations of healthy bacteria in the gut get out of whack, the result can be the stubborn and recurrent bacterial infection known as Clostridium difficile – C-dif.
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3 .The main symptom is nearly constant and debilitating diarrhea.
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4 .One of the most successful therapies for C-dif is to repopulate the intestines with healthy bacteria that keep that nasty C-dif in check.
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5 .There's been only one way to do this: import a small sample of a healthy person's feces.
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6 .That's right. a poop-transplant.
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7 .But the "ick" factor of fecal transplants is a hurdle for some, as well as a regulatory conundrum for the FDA.
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8 .Which is why researchers at the University Of Guelph in Canada came up with a synthetic alternative:
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9 .a laboratory-made slurry of healthy bacteria they're calling "rePOOPulate."
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10 .The research is published in the journal Microbiome.
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11 .It's intended to replace human fecal matter in stool transplants, and researchers say it has several advantages.
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12 .The bacteria are carefully controlled and can be tailored to the patient.
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13 .It reduces the risk of transmitting disease. and, well, it's just less gross.
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14 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Gretchen Kuda Kroen.
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