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🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.j.p. |
0:23.9 | That's y-A-K-U-L-T.c-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:31.8 | I'm standing on the rooftop of NYU-Langone Health, a hospital in Midtown Manhattan, |
0:40.0 | scanning the sky over the East River for a helicopter. It's New York City, so there are tons of helicopters, but I'm looking for a specific |
0:46.1 | one. Finally, I spot it, a white helicopter with red and white blades carrying some very precious cargo. |
0:57.3 | The blades were to a halt, and some people step out. |
1:01.0 | One man is carrying a big white box. |
1:04.8 | Inside the box, a pig kidney. |
1:10.6 | This is Science Quickly. |
1:12.6 | I'm Tanya Lewis. |
1:17.6 | I run back into the hospital to watch the small team arrive through the elevator doors, |
1:25.6 | wheeling the box with the kidney on ice. |
1:29.3 | I follow them right up to the operating floor. |
1:32.3 | And that's as far as I can go. |
1:34.3 | Only surgeons and nurses and a handful of observers are allowed into the operating room. |
1:40.3 | There's a risk of the pig organ carrying a virus that could infect people, |
1:47.1 | and they are scrubbed in with personal protective equipment on. |
1:51.3 | The surgical staff also had to undergo special blood testing before and after the surgery to ensure that they stay infection-free. |
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