Fecal Transplants: A Curious Cure in Human waste

(Credit: Artemida-psy/Shutterstock) In 2008, gastroenterologist Colleen Kelly had a patient with a recurring and debilitating infection of the gut with a microbe called Clostridioides difficile. Nothing Kelly did could ease the woman's severe abdominal cramping and diarrhea. So Kelly -- at her patient's urging -- decided to try something highly experimental: transplanting a fecal sample from a healthy donor into the large intestine. And it worked. Kelly, of Brown University School of Me