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."