Seems there is a huge opportunity for startups to understand and fix our guts. A Theranos of gut testing, where you can find out if you have biomarkers that need adjusted from your stool sample.
Didn't YC have this, and it turned out to literally be the Theranos of gut testing. MyBiome or something? Will look.
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.
> According to company insiders, the company often repeatedly billed patients without their consent and pressured doctors to approve tests.
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 ...
