A poo transplant could cure bowel infections

A study found that implanting faeces from a healthy mouse into a sick animal's bum wiped out the illness.

Chair of Microbial Biology and Metagenomics at the University of Queensland, Mark Morrison, told Science Alert: "Using a dose of other gut microbes through faecal transplantation appears to effectively displace these antibiotic resistant microbes, which warrants further investigation."

Poo transplant kills bacteria: mice study http://t.co/X7yGFyWQcK It seems that poop can heal - at least in some cases pic.twitter.com/sx2LcL9TSe

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Belly bugs treated by this method had previously resisted traditional treatments like drugs but more research is needed before the method can be used on humans.