Researchers tapping citizen-scientists for a novel gut check
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WASHINGTON – The bacterial zoo inside your gut could look very different if you're a vegetarian or an Atkins dieter, a couch potato or an athlete, fat or thin. Now for a fee -- $69 and up -- and a stool sample, the curious can find out just what's living in their intestines and take part in one of the hottest new fields in science. Wait a minute: How many average Joes really want to pay for the privilege of mailing such, er, intimate samples to scientists? A lot, hope the researchers running two novel citizen-science projects. One, the American Gut Project, aims to enroll 10,000 people -- and a bunch of their dogs and cats too -- from around the country. The other, uBiome, separately aims to enroll nearly 2,000 people from anywhere in the world.
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