Researchers at the University of Guelph
believe they've given doctors a new weapon in the fight against the pernicious stomach disease Clostridium difficile,
which is a problem for patients in hospitals the world over. That weapon? Synthetic human feces.
by the researchers who created it -- and thanks for that, because if you're going to name your synthetic poop substitute, by all means, be a little clever about it -- the synthetic poop is a mixture of probiotics that can be transplanted into a patient's intestine to return it to a more balanced bacterial makeup.