Thanks blam. Appropriately enough, this topic is also the home of the Digest ping, and, it's a little late in coming.
"The assortments of bacteria that live within the intestines of isolated tribes are far more diverse than the microbes found in the guts of Americans."
A program and a place to store/warehouse the diversity of gut bacteria in the world has been started.
Sorta like this thing:
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Well....here it is, I found it:
The Microbiota Vault
A global non-profit initiative to conserve long-term health for humanity
Microban was accidentally sprayed on the samples, dammit. ;^)
Thanks blam. Appropriately enough, this topic is also the home of the Digest ping, and, it's a little late in coming.
