Researchers propose widespread banking of stool samples for autologous faecal microbiota transplant later in life
Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have proposed that having individuals bank samples of people’s own gut microbiota when they are young and healthy for potential use later in life in an autologous faecal microbiota transplant (FMT). The findings were reported in the paper, ‘Rejuvenating the human gut microbiome', published in Trends in Molecular Medicine.