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This week we delve back into a topic that has had success with us before, Silicon Valley biotech startups that are complete scams. This time it isn't Theranos, it is what was dubbed the 23 and Me of poop. uBiome was a gut microbiome fingerprinting company that went from being able to be ordered by consumers, to being a clinical diagnostic, to being a complete scam in the few years that it operated. Now it's founders are wanted fugitives and I have to sequence my own gut microbiome at my house, in this economy?!?
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This week we delve back into a topic that has had success with us before, Silicon Valley biotech startups that are complete scams. This time it isn't Theranos, it is what was dubbed the 23 and Me of poop. uBiome was a gut microbiome fingerprinting company that went from being able to be ordered by consumers, to being a clinical diagnostic, to being a complete scam in the few years that it operated. Now it's founders are wanted fugitives and I have to sequence my own gut microbiome at my house, in this economy?!?

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