Packages of poo have been sent from all over the world to eagerly awaiting scientists in Switzerland – and they could help save humanity from extinction one day.
The frozen stool samples, collected from places such as and Puerto Rico, 식품위생교육 have been delivered to Adrian Egli’s lab at the University of Zurich.
Mr Egli, who is the director of the Institute of Medical Microbiology, says he is creating a vault of microbiota.
He says the most endangered organisms on Earth are living in humans guts so we should seek to preserve them.
Packages of poo have been sent from all over the world to eagerly awaiting scientists in Switzerland – as they could help save humanity from extinction one day
There are about 30 trillion cells in the human body, 식품위생교육 but the human microbiome consists of about 39 trillion microbial cells that include bacteria, viruses and fungi (stock image)
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