Rob Knight: Faecal Transplants? The Disgusting Is Par for the Course

Whether you’re fat or thin depends on the bacteria in your gut. Indeed, it’s these microbes more than your DNA that makes you you. And insight into the so-called microbiome is leading to somewhat strange, but effective new forms of therapy for a wide range of conditions.

Professor Rob Knight discusses this pioneering research in today’s Betazone. This discussion was originally published on October 21, 2015.