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I tried a test from troubled poop-testing startup uBiome that let me peek inside a 'forgotten organ.' Here's what I learned.
If you've ever taken a probiotic, eaten yogurt, or added pickles to your sandwich, you've taken a step toward nourishing the vital community of life in your gut collectively known as your microbiome.
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uBiome convinced Silicon Valley that testing poop was worth $600 million. Then the FBI came knocking. Here's the inside story.
When the three founders of the "microbial-genomics" startup uBiome began collecting human poop, they kept it in an erstwhile storage closet, inside secondhand freezers from a discount-lab-supply ...
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BREAKING: All of uBiome's top execs are out at the embattled poop-testing startup that's at the center of an FBI investigation
All three top execs at uBiome are out after a tumultuous few months at the poop-testing startup. Jessica Richman and Zac Apte, the company's cofounders and co-CEOs, resigned from the company's ...
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Bankrupt poop-testing startup uBiome just lost the government approval that's required to run key tests
uBiome, the poop-testing startup under a federal probe that filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, no longer has the lab certification required to run clinical tests. Those tests previously made ...
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uBiome Wants to Sample the Alien Cells Inside Your Body
uBiome CEO Jessica Richman talks to WSJ's Joanna Stern about her company's efforts to develop consumer devices that sample the microbiome inside the human body. She speaks at the WSJDLive 2015 ...