VIDEO: Microbiome wipe aims to simplify, encourage at-home gut health testing
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In this Healio video exclusive, Nathan Price, PhD, chief scientific officer at Thorne HealthTech, discusses the development of a new microbiome wipe that could change the landscape of at-home gut health testing.
According to Price, an existing barrier for at-home testing has been the stool collection process, which involves transferring a fecal sample into a vile. Seeking an easier way to collect the sample, Price and his team developed a polymer-based wipe.
“You can do a simple wipe, drop it in a vile, close it, shake it and it biodegrades away in about 10 seconds,” he said. “Then we can release in a solution that preserves the DNA for sequencing.”
Study results demonstrated that DNA sequencing data was just as good, if not better, with this new technology, Price said.
“Basically, what this shows is getting a microbiome sample is now as easy as something that you do every single day,” he said.
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