A Data-Driven Duty

How one biologist’s breakfast produced unexpected results for his gut — and for science.

By Peter Andrey Smith
May 18, 2016 4:46 PMNov 14, 2019 8:37 PM
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A microscopic view of Salmonella bacterium. | Science Picture Co/Science Source

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A toilet in Eric Alm’s MIT lab has contributed more to microbiology than most bathrooms. For the better part of 2009, the biologist used it to collect his own feces for analysis.

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