Notwithstanding the "yuck factor," fecal transplants are winning favor as a treatment for an especially nasty intestinal infection, and now Tabitha M. Powledge writes about a way to get that treatment in pill form: "Regulatory agencies will doubtless have something to say about that. But they’re going to have to move fast." Meanwhile, Apple and Facebook offers women up to $20,000 to postpone reproduction by freezing their eggs, and the reception they get is not good.
October 18, 2014
