Episode 247
247: Therapy With Paleofeces and Phages
This Week in Microbiology · Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson
July 30, 202154m 52s
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Show Notes
TWiM explores whether 'rewilding' is a way to get back our missing gut microbes, and failure of bacteriophage therapy due to the production of neutralizing antibodies.
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Links for this episode- Gut microbiota through an evolutionary lens (Science)
- You're missing microbes (NY Times)
- There is no 'healthy' microbiome (NY Times)
- Antibody limits bacteriophage therapy (Nat)
- Phage therapy on TWiEVO #44
- Graham Hatfull on TWiV #87
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