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Koala New Gut Bacteria With Poop Pill

Maela was inspired by human fecal transplants, which has become almost a standard way of using the bacteria found in poop from a healthy person to cure gut diseases. We've seen that in rodents you can change what they'll eat by changing their microbes in this way. Wonder if it works for coalas. But how do you give a koala new gut bacteria with a poop pill? Can we call it the poop pillpill?

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