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British Gut Project
- imdsm 11y agoNow I just need to wait for someone knowledgable to tell me more information about this project, after which I will probably sign up and send off my poo.
- proactivesvcs 11y agoAnd pay £75 to pay for their research without, as far as I can find, much information on their methodologies, details on what will happen to your data and how it will be looked after.
- Fuxy 11y agoIt would be more helpful it i knew what kind of protections my data will get. Where did you get the £75 fee? I only see a mention of £2.90 postage.
- proactivesvcs 11y agoI followed the "Make a donation" button from the right-hand side, to: https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/4sSf3/ab/5qJ7f https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/4sSf3/ab/5qJ7f Once there, press the orange "Contribute" button.
- matternew 11y agoI suspect the £75 'donation' came from their 'fundrazr' page: https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/4sSf3/ https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/4sSf3/ You seem to have to join via this fundraising site. It's mildly concerning that their participant login site seems to be coming up with an SSL error too ( https://www.microbio.me/BritishGut https://www.microbio.me/BritishGut ). This site also takes you back round to the fundraising page when you select the menu option to join.
- sciencerobot 11y agoI agree that the website is lacking details. If the project is anything like the American Gut Project (which the page suggests), your data will be made available on GitHub [1]. This paper [2] describes the methodology that was used to generate the data for American Gut. [1]: https://github.com/biocore/American-Gut https://github.com/biocore/American-Gut. [2]: Caporaso, J. Gregory, et al. "Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms." The ISME journal 6.8 (2012): 1621-1624.
- jbrooksuk 11y agoThe font on the website hurts my eyes, making me squint.
- wbillingsley 11y agoTo be fair, given what these researchers look at all day, we can't expect too much from them aesthetically.
- Nux 11y agoSomeone took the trouble to choose that font and link it from fonts.googleapis.com. If you ban the google fonts site the default fonts are more than readable (via RequestPolicy extension or some other method). http://img.nux.ro/Wb9-Selection_035.png http://img.nux.ro/Wb9-Selection_035.png
- danuker 11y agoSurveillance from the inside.
- Graham24 11y agoI heard about this on the Today programme this morning, the presenter was taking great delight in repeating the name "The British Gut Project".
- illumen 11y agoI bet :) Try it in a Sean Connery voice... "The British Gut Project"
- rottyguy 11y agoHearing a lot about gut bacteria these days influencing everything from weight loss to allergies. Can anyone with knowledge verify any of these claims or is it, yet, another passing fancy?
- tokenadult 11y agoThe study linked here is one step in trying to find out how many of those claims are credible. What I found interesting about this link, which I heard about from a medical genetics researcher, is that the British Gut Study is connected to the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS), which has been going on for twenty years, so it will include some data that are from a genetically sensitive study design. That makes it easier (but not completely easy) to tease out environmental influences on gut microbes from individual genetic influences on gut microbes. The study also includes some data on the twins' health and some other variables of interest. The TEDS research program and all of its study subjects are based in Britain, but the study design is of such interest around the world that the United States federal government helps fund it.
- andy_ppp 11y agoBy sample do they mean I get to send someone my poo for £75 and they will tell me what microbes they found in it?
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- bduerst 11y agoYou could probably just go to a nearby clinical lab and order a stool culture. Without a diagnosis though (for insurance) I fear what the actual cost would be.