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“Donating poo isn’t like giving blood. Carolyn Edelstein, head of stool donation company OpenBiome, told the New York Times in 2018, “Only about three percent make it through our screening process. We like to joke with our donors that it’s easier to get into Harvard or M.I.T. than be a stool donor.” It’s very important for the gut microbiome of donors…

“To do something as simple as going in and making a stool donation, and know that it can literally change someone’s life from one day to the next when they have a disease like C. diff, where they can’t even leave their house and the next day they can go about things fairly normally —…

Donors can help cure patients suffering from dangerous infection and earn financial compensation for their commitment Somerville, MA – OpenBiome, a nonprofit stool bank, is seeking healthy individuals to enroll as stool donors at its new clinical site near Sullivan Square, in Somerville, MA. Individuals are also still able to donate at OpenBiome’s current site…

    “You walk through a labyrinth of MIT buildings and into what looks like a typical laboratory: white walls and clean counters, the constant buzz of machines, the clutter of pipettes. In the corner, you open the door to a hulking freezer. When the puff of frosty air clears, you see stacks of plastic bottles filled…

Pending completion of stool-based testing for SARS-CoV-2, OpenBiome will expand investigational FMT availability from emergency use to any scheduled patient OpenBiome is phasing out production of new treatments. It aims to have inventory to meet demand throughout 2021, as a bridge to FDA-approved therapies CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – OpenBiome will expand availability of investigational FMT preparations for all…

“Donating your feces to a local hospital or nonprofit could be one way to help—and it could be lucrative. One Boston-based nonprofit, OpenBiome, pays $40 per stool donation. (But before you whip out a plastic baggie and mail your poop in, you should know that OpenBiome only works with donors in the Boston area and, due to an…

UPDATE APRIL 10, 2020: OpenBiome is still shipping material; all material being shipped was collected and manufactured prior to December 1, 2019 and is compliant with all FDA guidance. UPDATE MARCH 25, 2020: There have been no reports of SARS-CoV-2 transmission by FMT. No OpenBiome FMT material in circulation was collected or manufactured after December 1,…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass—On March 12, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety alert regarding the possible transmission of diarrheagenic E. coli in patients who were treated by fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) from three OpenBiome donors. Across more than 55,000 treatments shipped since 2013, the six cases covered in this safety alert are…

“Last month the Food and Drug Administration sent out an emergency alert: Two people who had undergone fecal transplants developed multi-drug-resistant infections from bacteria in the stool they were given, and one died. The death and illness may be the first serious adverse events associated with the poopy procedure, out of tens of thou sands of times it’s believed…

“Screening donors on an individual basis is not only expensive—it is also not for the squeamish. Carolyn Edelstein is the executive director of OpenBiome, the first stool bank, which operates in the Boston area and provides physicians and researchers with prescreened fecal matter. Before stool banks existed, Edelstein says, physicians had “shelves and shelves of blenders” in…

“Potential stool donors currently must fill out a questionnaire similar to that of blood donors, and undergo blood and stool tests prior to their donation to “make sure you aren’t giving anyone stool that could harm them,” McSweeney said. For example, the first U.S. stool bank, OpenBiome, requires that donors fill out a 200-point clinical…

Funding from the Kellen Foundation triples OpenBiome’s pro bono fund and provides funding for capsule research MEDFORD, Mass – The Kellen Foundation is a private nonprofit foundation based in New York. As one of the largest charitable organizations in the U.S., the Kellen Foundation supports programs and organizations across the arts, higher education, and health care…