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In Switzerland, a bold initiative is underway: freezing human feces to preserve global biodiversity. However, this isn't just about safeguarding nature's diversity of plants and animals — human gut ...

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In the fall of 2023, NIST’s scientists in Charleston, South Carolina, received a special shipment of containers packed with baggies full of frozen human feces. Teams of scientists there and at an ...

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In a recent study published in the journal Nature Metabolism, researchers presented a method to quantify food-derived deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in human stool metagenomes using a computationally ...