Visiting a mummy factory, and improving the IQ of … toilets
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Is There a Microbiome Sequencing in a Toilet?
There's tons of application I can think of, but one of our most challenging thing is engineering challenge because for microbiome analysis, you have to have like a benchtop sequencer. Jack Gilbert is having a company that's putting the sequencer right next to the toilet. The other professor, Joshua Kuhn from the University of Wisconsin Medicine, he's actually putting all his urine sample to the mass spectrometer to look at the 600 metabolic activity level. It's a treasure trove of biomarkers. We're talking a lot about what technologies could be implemented if we had maybe more money or people were more able to loosen up a little bit and give this data.
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