The treatment aims to improve symptoms by transplanting intestinal bacteria of healthy people into patients with the intractable disease "ulcerative colitis" Juntendo University and other organizations announced that they have performed the first transplant of "advanced medical care" that can be used in combination with treatment covered by public insurance. The group will transplant intestinal bacteria to 47 patients over the next one year to confirm their safety and efficacy.
In the future, the company aims to approve the treatment as a treatmentcovered by insurance.