New Danone research project offers participants opportunity to ‘map their gut health’
Participants in the project, led by Danone Nutricia Research and the University of California, will receive a free personalized microbiome and diet report.
The Microsetta Initiative, a research project led by a team at the University of California, San Diego, in partnership with Danone Nutricia Research — the research and innovation division of Danone North America's global parent company, Danone S.A. — is recruiting hundreds of U.S. citizen scientists to map their gut microbiome. Participants in the program will have the opportunity to get their microbiome sequenced, at no personal charge, and will receive a free report. This is the first phase of an unprecedented program to map the gut microbiome of people around the world, according to the research project’s partners.
The gut microbiome — the trillions of bacteria living in the gut — is considered the next frontier in health and wellbeing. This research program, known as "The Human Diets & Microbiome Initiative" (THDMI), aims to discover the best diets and foods on the planet that can nourish the “gutties of the world” using the latest sequencing technology such as shotgun metagenomic sequencing.