Found: (the company is uBiome)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBiome In 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged two of the cofounders (Jessica Richman and Zachary Apte) with defrauding investors.[4][5] The couple were also charged with federal crimes including conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering.[6] Since 2021, the FBI has considered the founders to be fugitives.
Is it really impossible to do all these stuff ethically?
Not a doctor but it really seems possible to just take stuff from people and throw it under a really good microscope and have a computer analyze it. You'd need some large capital costs for the microscopes but the consumable portion should be pretty limited to glass slides (plastic?).
One of these days I guess I need to spend time on gov auctions or something to find a suitable microscope ...
Faecal transplants have been tried. And we know that it works sometimes. The problem is that it also sometimes does great harm.
There is currently no way to separate and categorize the good flora that helps from the bad flora that can harm.
This is, however, an active area of research. Sure, it could be going faster.
But, of course, the US is busy wiping out the NIH, the very people who fund this kind of research ...
cyanydeez•6mo ago