The Microbiome Snapshot

A discussion of challenges and solutions for global shortages of materials for COVID-19 testing

The world is talking about the coronavirus pandemic and global health crisis we find ourselves livin...

Katherine Lawless Oct 27, 2020

The “gold standard” for gut microbiome studies has traditionally been a fresh stool sample that was ...

Katherine Lawless Oct 16, 2019

This week, I interviewed Dr. Charlie Lees and Lee Murphy, investigators for the PREdiCCt Study (Prog...

Shauna White Sep 17, 2019

Throughout our cold chain stool sample collection series we explored the challenges, high cost, and ...

Jessica Lin Jun 14, 2019

Evolution of sequencing technology Since the human genome was sequenced and famously published in Na...

Seb Deneault May 30, 2019

Most people consider the nature of collecting fecal samples unpleasant and inconvenient. One of the ...

Zara Jennings May 01, 2019

In this first of a three-part blog series, I am delving into the topic of cold-chain stool collectio...

Ali Acar Apr 09, 2019

A critical component to any human gut microbiome study is the ability to accurately represent the ‘t...

Erin Carpenter Jul 30, 2018

Since the completion of the Human Microbiome Project (HMP), the number of microbiome focused researc...

Lisa Gamwell Aug 15, 2016

Update: Since this interview with the Weizmann Institute, the results of the Personalized Nutrition ...

Cindy MacCullough May 26, 2015