Fecal Matter Transplants: Fresh or Frozen?

Fecal matter transplants (FMT) might elicit a giggle from the uninitiated. But for many, these donations are life-changing, if not outright life-saving. A new study helps confirm that frozen fecal donations work as well as fresh ones, which could help make the treatments cheaper and more widely available. And that's a good thing, because FMT – currently only FDA approved for treating one kind of bacterial infection – is being tested to fix everything from ulcers to obesity.

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