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Dutch open their first 'poop bank' to treat gut diseases
Published Mon, Feb 15, 2016 · 09:50 PM
The Hague
AFTER blood and sperm banks, Dutch researchers have now opened the country's first "poop bank" in a rare and cutting-edge branch of medicine to treat people with chronic gut infections.
"Our poop bank will help give doctors and hospitals access to transplants of faecal matter," Ed Kuijper, professor of microbiology at Leiden University, told AFP.
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