August 17th, 2017 By Embriette Hyde, PhD, Project Manager of the American Gut Project Here at American Gut we have a big job. Not only are we amassing the world’s largest human microbiome sequencing and metadata dataset, and making that available to anyone around the world, but we are also navigating the choppy waters that inevitably always occur when something big has the potential to promise improved health in the future. Fecal transplants are a great example of this. They have been incredibly successful in the context of Clostridium difficile infection, and this together with identified a ..read more