Fecal transplants in pill form, and gut bacteria that nourish hibernating squirrels

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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On this week’s show: A pill derived from human feces treats recurrent gut infections, and how a squirrel’s microbiome supplies nitrogen during hibernation First up this week, Staff Writer Kelly Servick joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss putting the bacterial benefits of human feces in a pill. The hope is to avoid using fecal transplants to treat recurrent gut infections caused by the bacterium Clostridium difficile. Also this week, Hannah Carey, a professor in the department of comparative biosciences within the school of veterinary medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, talks with Sarah about how ground squirrels are helped by their gut microbes during hibernation. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. [Image: Public domain; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [alt: illustration of two 13-lined ground squirrels] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Kelly Servick Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ada0494 About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:21.1	This is the science podcast for January 28, 2022.
1:26.9	I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:28.5	Each week we talk about the most interesting news and research from science and the sister
1:33.0	journals.
1:34.0	This week we're all about the microbiome.
1:36.6	First up we have staff writer Kelly Servic.
1:39.1	She has a story on putting the bacterial benefits of human feces in a pill, which can help avoid the use of
1:45.6	fecal transplants to treat a tough hospital infection known as C. diff. After that, we have researcher
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