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Robotic Colonic

gutsy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:46:10 +0000

Robots are coming soon to a bowel near you! Italian scientists are working hard to bring a swallowable colon-crawling robot to your guts to help scan for colon cancer. The so-called spider-pill looks a lot like something from a sci-fi flick. Other similar robots have been developed, but this is the first that can be controlled by doctors wirelessly to hunt in all your bodily nooks and crannies. Not only will this make colonoscopies a heck of a lot more pleasant, but once the exam is over, the robot gets flushed away along with, uh, everything else. {BBC via Discover blogs}

Totally Boweled Over

iheartguts — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:26:14 +0000

More brand-new tees in stock, including men’s and women’s intestine “I Heart Your Guts” t-shirts and our fancy new “Gall of the Wild” gall bladder shirt for men and women. Be the first on your block to wear your bowels on the outside! I have finally caved to consumer trends and have made separate colors for men and women’s tees. Apparently real men don’t wear pink.The new gall bladder tee also means we’ve got the goods for a Gall Bladder Gift Pack. Woo hoo! And for those of you waiting for the Smells Like Spleen Spirit t-shirt, we’ve got that back in stock, this time in Kelly Green, in all sizes, finally. Thanks for being so patient!

Grosser Than Gross

iheartguts — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:21:21 +0000

Perhaps you’ve heard of a heart transplant, a lung transplant, and even a uterus transplant, but have you ever heard of not just a bowel transplant (WARNING: STOP READING NOW IF YOU’RE EASILY DISGUSTED), but a feces transplant? Yes, it’s true, people sometimes transplant poo. I learned this from What’s Your Poo Telling You?, a fun-loving and fact-filled book all about bodily excretions. Folks with really bad cases of colitis caused by poor intestinal flora can sometimes benefit from a squirt of someone else’s nicely populated bacterial colony. As the book points out, this last-resort treatment may have a bright future “owing to the short list of willing recipients and the potentially endless supply of donors.”