July 20th Blog-The Use of Microbes-Theresa Lin

Microbes, synonymous with microorganisms I learned, include the specimen of feces that Dr. Khoruts used in his procedure. By transplanting the husband’s stool into the wife’s colon, Dr Khoruts ingeniously allowed the husband’s bacteria to act in the place of the wife’s non existent ones. This advanced transplant and vast understanding of microbes does not seize to amaze the scientific community, as it has developed from a minor experiment conducted by Van Leeuwenhoek and become a life-saving procedure in only the past two decades. I had a similar problem to that of the wife, so much so I missed the last week of finals. However, since my condition only lasted a little over a week, compared to the woman’s months-worth-of agony, my doctor did not prescribe anything to inhibit my body’s “cleanse,” as he said. My doctor insisted that when the body expels germs in that manner, it is best to let it do so. The transplantation of microbes has allowed for a more intensive study of DNA and has considerably advanced the world of modern medicine.