A research group in Europe is looking for participants in a microbial gut profiling study. One of their side enticements is that they will - if you want - put you in contact via social networking with other people worldwide who share your microbial profile. Sounds weird but really I think this is brilliant. Gut microbes impact us in ways that we don't fully understand yet. There may be many other people who have figured out good balance with their microbes that you can learn from. OK, that still sounds weird, but cool in a sciency way
http://my.microbes.eu/
Here's the more sensationalized interpretation....
http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/stories/new-social-network-matches-people-based-on-gut-bacteria
found out that approximate cost to the individual is ~$2000. Not bad considering you're getting a big batch of DNA sequencing, but hardly in a typical person's budget....
ReplyDeletelooking forward to that first time that I meet someone who says "my wife and I met through a microbial profiling social network"
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