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Scientists use ‘RePOOPulating’ to cure deadly gastrointestinal infection

Canadian medical researchers have developed synthetic poop — dubbed “RePOOPulate” — to cure a deadly gastrointestinal infection. “It’s an exciting finding,” said Emma Allen-Vercoe, a professor in the University of Guelph’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. In a study published in Microbiome, a BioMed Central (BMC) publication that launched…