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GeekWire: Celebrity cat lends poop to Seattle startup for science

Internet star Lil Bub is a tiny cat helping with big scientific discoveries. GeekWire reports how a Seattle startup is using her cat poop in the name of science.

There might just be valuable scientific data in your cat’s poop. That was certainly the case for Lil Bub, one of the original internet cat celebrities with 1.8 million Instagram followers.

These days, Bub is using her fame to further a huge host of causes, including learning more about the bacteria floating around inside animal’s digestive systems.

Phase Genomics, a Seattle-based biotechnology startup, teamed up with Bub and organizations AnimalBiome and KittyBiome to study cats’ microbiome, the name for all the bacteria that lives inside an animal’s gut. The collaboration led to the discovery of 22 new kinds of bacteria: 13 from Lil Bub and nine from Danny, the cat of microbiome scientist Jennifer Gardy.

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