[decimon]

Pondering ping.

Thanks, grey_whiskers. Hutchinson may have been all wet but probably on firm ground with regards his comprehensive studies.

[grey_whiskers]

Here’s one crude but effective example of what this kind of ecosystem engineering might look like. A couple years ago, Alexander Khoruts, a gastroenterologist at the University of Minnesota, found himself in a grim dilemma. He was treating a patient who had developed a runaway infection of Clostridium difficile in her gut. She was having diarrhea every 15 minutes and had lost sixty pounds, but Khoruts couldn’t stop the infection with antibiotics. So he performed a stool transplant, using a small sample from the woman’s husband. Just two days after the transplant, the woman had her first solid bowel movement in six months. She has been healthy ever since.

The couple lived in Minnetonka, a swank western suburb.

I can just hear her saying to him afterwards, "I've had just about enough sh*t out of you!"

Cheers!