To fight coronavirus, researchers are seeking poop samples
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Researchers are gearing up to collect stool and blood samples from willing participants to study the impact that the bacteria comprising the gut microbiome could have on COVID-19 vaccine efficacy.
Through the sample collection, the biotech is working to find the microbiome composition lending the best immune response to COVID-19 vaccines, and pending results of the study, could potentially effort a microbiome therapeutic. This would involve a weeks-worth of pills with dried bacteria to take along with vaccination to boost the immune system and enhance vaccine efficacy. "The data that we’re getting out of this could be very, very impactful on opening the eyes of these larger pharma companies that the microbiome and data at least should be very much taken into account on how that’s going to impact vaccine response," Culler told Fox News.More Related News