English  |  Español  |  Français
Knowledge Base

Search criteria

Information Types

Subjects

  • Health and Biodiversity (345)

Countries

Date

  • Added or updated since:

  • Custom range...

News Headline

‘Poop vault’ of human feces could preserve gut’s microbial biodiversity—and help treat disease

Source
Science Magazine

Publication Date
2018-11-02

Whether in villages on the coast of Ghana or in the mountains of Rwanda, asking for people's poop is a good icebreaker, Mathieu Groussin says. "Everybody laughs," says Groussin, a microbiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. "Especially when we stress that we need the whole fecal sample and show them the big bowl."

Content
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/poop-vault-human-feces-could-preserve-gut-biodiversity-and-help-treat-disease