This speculative project proposes a new kind of home appliance: a microbial time machine that empowers us to collect, sequence, explore, and back up our previous, personal microbial states.
By creating a historical database of our microbiomes, the distinctive and ever-changing population of microbes that exist inside and on our bodies, the system allows its users to “jump back in time.” This would be done by reconstituting one’s microbiome to mirror that which existed in the past. bactoyou offers a solution to microbiome changes or depletion as a result of antibiotic treatments, chemotherapy, long-term travel, and other events that influence the microbiome.
By using this new tool, users would become more aware of their microbiome by collecting samples in an easy and user-friendly way, breaking the paradigms of traditional fecal sampling methods. Through this service, users would also gain control of sensitive, personal data about their health.
bacToYou was also presented both at The MoMA as a finalist at the BioDesign Challenge and at RISD during BioDesign Symposium (From inspiration to integration) both in 2018
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