Ryan Hsu

Dear Backers!It's been a while since our last post, and we have a ton of updates for you.Graduation!We graduated in May! All of us are currently working in either research or clinical positions and...

Hi backers!We finally received the DNA sequencing data from uBiome. Altogether it's about 12GB of data in FASTQ format, which are basically fancy text files of ATCGs (4 bases of DNA), quality/confi...

I realize it's been a while since our last update! Our last entry talked about starting the study. Right after that, finals season started and we forgot to write an update. Sorry if the tardiness c...

Last week we screened over 30 individuals for the study. The most common reasons for exclusion were medical reasons or dietary reasons, especially if taking probiotic supplements or other medicatio...

Ever since the IRB was passed, the pace of the project has really picked up. We were used to waiting days to weeks at a time for emails and IRB reviews, but now there are things to work on every da...

Also, as of today we have officially received IRB approval! We will be hosting our first info-session on Thursday, October 20th to students at UC Berkeley. Also, I've posted our revised study desig...

It's been a while!We have spent the last 6+ months working on our IRB (Institutional Review Board) protocol, which is federally required paperwork for human research describing our project, methods...

In the last few weeks, I've been in touch with a few professors, both here at UC Berkeley and also microbiome researchers at MIT to discuss the significance and logistics of running this study. The...

Here's a few things we made in the last few days: 240 flyer cards to hand out and a banner for setting up a booth on Sproul Plaza, the main open area on campus. We will begin advertising for the st...