Are at-home microbiome tests worth the hype? Here's what gastroenterologists want you to know

Everyone's mailing in stool samples for a gut report, but can an at-home microbiome test actually tell you anything?
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What at-home microbiome tests can (and can't) tell you about your gut health, according to doctors

At-home microbiome tests are having a moment. You mail in a stool sample and get back a report on your gut bacteria, along with personalized claims about your diet, weight, mood and even longevity.
News Medical

Partnership develops stool sample processing kit to help inform WHO's policy update on childhood TB diagnosis

42 Technology (42T), FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, and Rutgers University (Rutgers) have worked together to develop an innovative stool sample processing kit that has played a central ...
techtimes

Stool Sample Tests Could Speed Up Autism Diagnosis, Hong Kong Study Finds

Parents may soon be able to determine whether their young child has autism by using a new stool test kit developed by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The test, which analyzes gut ...
MedPage Today

Mail-Order Stool Testing for IBD Favorable to Patients

ORLANDO -- Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) reported mostly favorable responses with the use of mail-order kits for stool sample collections, according to a survey study. Among survey ...
GeekWire

Naveen Jain’s microbiome and diagnostics startup Viome is raising more cash

Viome CEO Naveen Jain shows how to put a stool sample into a kit for analysis. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Seattle-area microbiome and diagnostics startup Viome Life Sciences is raising more cash, ...
Nature

A Pipeline for Faecal Host DNA Analysis by Absolute Quantification of LINE-1 and Mitochondrial Genomic Elements Using ddPCR

Stool contains DNA shed from cells of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and has great potential as a bio-specimen for non-invasive, nucleic acid-based detection of GI diseases. Whereas methods for ...