Gut health startup uBiome raised $22 million and is launching a DNA test for your poop

There are a great deal of new companies taking a gander at your DNA nowadays yet uBiome emerges as interesting among them for testing the DNA of microorganisms found in your fecal matter.

These bugs have a great deal to do with your wellbeing and the startup is propelling a clinical screening test called SmartGut to succession the DNA of those organisms.

uBiome tells TechCrunch it has likewise shut on $22 million in Series B financing to help with the dispatch of its testing, for its as of late College of American Pathologists (CAP) certify clinical lab and to keep developing the group.

uBiome left Y Combinator in 2012 with the expect to take in more about the bugs in our bodies and has been developing at a relentless clasp in the four years since. A representative for the organization tells TechCrunch the organization now has a database of near 100,000 gut tests, up from 2,500 four years prior, on account of the work of native researchers and the uBiome people group.

In any case, why grouping the stuff that turns out the flip side? The GI tract is abounding with microscopic organisms and research proposes the wrong kind may assume a part in diabetes, different sclerosis, tumor, liver sickness, heftiness, fractious gut disorder and various different diseases. Truth be told, numerous distributed studies have indicated control of the gut microbiome has cured illnesses, for example, corpulence in people. What's more, fecal transplantation has demonstrated a 90 percent achievement rate at curing a fatal kind of the runs brought on by a bacterium known as Clostridium difficile.

uBiome's new SmartGut screening test plans to distinguish "many microbial genera and species" utilizing a 16S rRNA quality sequencing strategy. It's hazy how much the SmartGut test will cost however an essential gut pack goes for $89 on the site.

You can arrange the test and gather your specimens at home and afterward deliver them to the lab to discover what sorts of bugs are processing about inside your digestion systems — and to check whether they may be to be faulted for what afflicts you. It takes around 2 minutes to gather your specimen and get it prepared to send in. uBiome says it has submitted subtle elements of the testing strategies and parameters to an associate looked into diary.

8VC drove the financing round, with extra support from Slow Ventures, Stanford's StartX Fund, and different blessed messenger speculators, conveying the aggregate now raised to $27 million.