247: Therapy With Paleofeces and Phages

This Week in Microbiology

TWiM explores whether ‘rewilding’ is a way to get back our missing gut microbes, and failure of bacteriophage therapy due to the production of neutralizing antibodies.

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Links for this episode

• Gut microbiota through an evolutionary lens (Science)
• You’re missing microbes (NY Times)
• There is no ‘healthy’ microbiome (NY Times)
• Antibody limits bacteriophage therapy (Nat)
• Phage therapy on TWiEVO #44
• Graham Hatfull on TWiV #87
• TWiM Listener survey

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