uBiome: sequence your own microbiome!
Joyce Park stashed this in Science
Source: http://ubiome.com/
Stashed in: #health, Science!, Microbiome
Apparently this is not a joke. Learn about the bacteria in your body!
Wow that's a lot of bacteria.
Note that uBiome is a for-profit company and it's unclear what they do with your data:
American Gut Project sounds better:
The company’s goal, apart from giving people a way to see what’s in their gut, is to provide this data to researchers so that they can look at microbiome on a grand scale.
There are a few other projects dubbed “citizen science” that work with microbiomes, such as the American Gut Project, the kit for which costs $99. But the proceeds go to the Biofrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado-Boulder and the Earth Microbiome Project at the University of Chicago.
7:25 AM May 02 2013