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
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