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Necrotizing enterocolitis is a currently unpreventable life-threatening GI disorder of preterm infants. Fecal microbiota transplantation is promising, but risks transfer of pathogenic microbes. Anders Brunse (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and colleagues published a new paper in The ISME Journal showing transplantation of fecal filtrate (which contains phages but not bacteria) safely protects against necrotizing enterocolitis in piglets.