DoggyBiome: Healthy? Sick? Young? Old? Send Us Your Dog Poop!

DoggyBiome: Healthy? Sick? Young? Old? Send Us Your Dog Poop!

DoggyBiome joins KittyBiome in identifying pet gut microbiomes and developing new therapies for our furry family members.  The world’s crappiest KICKSTARTER was funded! Looking forward to sending in my pup’s poop!   Today Mostly Microbes is thrilled to have a guest post featuring another fabulous citizen science microbiome project – DoggyBiome. Inspired by her senior dog’s ailing gut health, Holly Ganz, PhD started examining pet microbiomes. DoggyBiome has a database of healthy wild and domesticated dogs to compare your dog’s microbiome to. As more people sequence both healthy and sick pets of all ages, identifying problems in the gut microbiome communities can lead to treatments both now and in the future. To get your dog or cat’s microbiome sequenced, check out AnimalBiome where screening services are currently half-price. Follow DoggyBiome and KittyBiome on twitter for sales and updates. Let me know if you participated and what you thought. 

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