Microbioom

Catherine Duff had been looking forward to the meeting that was about to begin. The 57-year old former medical case manager from Carmel, Indiana traveled all the way to NIH headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. It was May 2, today and tomorrow she would attend a public workshop hosted by the FDA, about Fecal Microbiota for Transplantation (FMT). Duff had suffered from eight episodes of C. difficile and was finally cured by an FMT in 2010. She realized how lucky she