UBiome

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uBiome is San Francisco based [1] citizen science startup company focused on sequencing the human microbiome.[2][3] uBiome is notable as the first direct to consumer company to offer human microbiome sequencing.[4] As well, it broke records as the largest citizen science crowd-funding project,[5] raising over $350,000 from more than 2,500 participants.[6]

Completely financed by crowdfunding,[7] the project is run by Zachary Apte and Jessica Richman out of the QB3 Incubator at The University of California, San Francisco.[8][9]

uBiome received approval of their human subjects protocol from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) E&I Review Services in April 2013 [10]

References

  1. ↑ Moheb, Costandi (2013). "Citizen microbiome". Nature Biotechnology 31 (90): 90. doi:10.1038/nbt0213-90a. 
  2. ↑ "Bacteria Health Benefits Microbiome Research". Oprah. 
  3. ↑ "uBiome project will sequence the bacteria that share our bodies". Guardian. 
  4. ↑ "Crowdsourcing human microbiome research". Oxbridge Biotech. 
  5. ↑ "uBiome Indiegogo Campaign". Indiegogo. 
  6. ↑ "ubiome will catalog your microbes again and again". MIT Technology Review. 
  7. ↑ "crowdfunding and irbs the case of ubiome". Scientific American. 
  8. ↑ "uBIome about page". uBiome. 
  9. ↑ "UBIOME WANTS TO HARVEST YOUR GUT--AND UNLOCK THE HEALTH SECRETS OF THE HUMAN MICROBIOME". Fast Company. 
  10. ↑ Richman, Jessica. "Crowdfunding and IRBs: The Case of uBiome". Scientific American. Retrieved 9 November 2013. 

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