The bacteria that lives in the intestinal tract can affect digestion, weight gain, mood and how the body absorbs medicine. UBiome, a Silicon Valley startup, has built a company around sequencing...
========== Each and every person is walking around
with a large community, up to 10 million,bacteria both in and on our body.If you want to think about that in terms of
weight, your brain is probably around 6 pounds,and you probably have at least that weight
of bacteria in you and on you.So itâs a significant amount of what we
walk around with everyday.This is uBiome in San Francisco, the first
BioTech Company to be started witha crowdfunding campaign.Their big bet, that people will want to pay
to find out whatâs in their microbiomes,kind of like people pay for DNA tests.The microbiome is the community of
microorganisms that live on us and in us.They digest our food, they synthesis
vitamins, they drug us with chemicals thatthey make, they prevent us from getting dis...
