Policy: How to regulate faecal transplants

Mark B. Smith, Colleen Kelly and Eric J. Alm ()
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Mark B. Smith: Mark B. Smith is a PhD candidate in microbiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and co-founder of OpenBiome.
Colleen Kelly: Colleen Kelly is a gastroenterologist and clinical assistant professor of medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Eric J. Alm: Eric J. Alm is associate professor of biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nature, 2014, vol. 506, issue 7488, 290-291

Abstract: For medical use, human stool should be considered a tissue, not a drug, argue Mark B. Smith, Colleen Kelly and Eric J. Alm.

Date: 2014
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