University of Chinese School of Medicine, Hong Kong: Asia's first "Microbiological Transplantation and Research Centre" was established.

The University of Chinese Medical School of Hong Kong on the 9th established Asia's first "Microbiological Transplantation and Research Center" to study the role of the "intestinal microbiome" in the human body and to expand the treatment of "microbiome transplantation" diseases, Hong Kong's Grand Gazette reported.
, the Chinese University of Medicine, has treated more than 80 patients with gastrointestinal diseases with microbiome transplantation since February last year, and preliminary studies have found that weight loss can be achieved by transplanting thin gut bacteria into obese people.
, a preliminary study by the Chinese University Medical College found that in addition to using exercise, dieting and surgery to help obese people lose weight, thin and healthy people's gut microbes can be implanted into the intestines of type 2 diabetics and obese people, changing the type of intestinal microbiome to achieve weight loss.
, the university has used this method to help 22 obese and type 2 diabetes people with a BMI (body mass index) of 28 to 43 lose weight within six months, by up to 12 kg. Chen Qixiang, head of the Department of Microbiology at the Chinese University of Science and College of Medicine, said that intestinal microbiological transplantation is the faeces of healthy donors, added to physiological saline to filter, remove impurities to achieve purification, and make intestinal microbiome preparations for cryopreservation.

until that, donors are required to undergo a full range of health assessments and a full physical examination to ensure that the body is free of other ailments.
Chen Ki-xiang said the centre had earlier recruited 50 donors, less than 20 of whom had become qualified donors, and estimated that only 5% of hong Kong's population was eligible to donate, and that the centre was now recruiting 40 obese people with a BMI of 28 or above as a target. Huang Xiuxuan, a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology at the
Chinese University School of Medicine, said there are three ways in which transplant recipients can receive microbes. Chen Jialiang, dean of the
Chinese University School of Medicine, reminded the public not to transplant thin and healthy people's bacteria into their bodies to the effect of weight loss, and there is no healthy food that has been shown to treat obesity, diabetes or other intestinal diseases.
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