Research on the human microbiome — microorganism communities that live in a part of your body such as your mouth or gut — has led to a number of insights and spurred further investigations into what makes up a healthy person.
The company, based out of Bellevue, Washington, and founded in 2016, says that it has run tests for some 350,000 consumers from 106 countries (primarily the US, UK, Canada and Australia) to date, working out to some 600,000 samples that are feeding and informing its algorithm.
Its plan is to use the equity funding both to expand existing business — which includes tests based on samples of a person’s blood, stools and saliva, vitamin supplements and assessments around diet — as well as to break into new areas.
In countries like the U.S., as standard medical services continue to get more expensive covering an ever-wider set of conditions, we’re seeing a growing population of consumers swing towards what they see as complementary, or even replacements, for pursuing the former route.
There is the fact that its original insights come out of Los Alamos and its focus on RNA gene expression — an approach that it says “enables us to provide individuals with recommendations that can be effective, dynamic, and relevant to their current state of health,” but also its use of AI.
In turn Viome interprets that data, it says, using “modern AI, machine learning, and bioinformatics methods running on massive cloud computing…to identify what is important for human health, and translate those findings into personalized nutritional recommendations for each customer.” It claims to have more than 35 predictive models of chronic diseases including diabetes, obesity, depression, IBS and IBD, and says it has FDA breakthrough device designation “for its ability to detect early-stage cancer in the mouth and throat using saliva with 95% specificity and over 90% sensitivity.”
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Research on the human microbiome — microorganism communities that live in a part of your body such as your mouth or gut — has led to a number of insights and spurred further investigations into what makes up a healthy person.
The company, based out of Bellevue, Washington, and founded in 2016, says that it has run tests for some 350,000 consumers from 106 countries (primarily the US, UK, Canada and Australia) to date, working out to some 600,000 samples that are feeding and informing its algorithm.
Its plan is to use the equity funding both to expand existing business — which includes tests based on samples of a person’s blood, stools and saliva, vitamin supplements and assessments around diet — as well as to break into new areas.
In countries like the U.S., as standard medical services continue to get more expensive covering an ever-wider set of conditions, we’re seeing a growing population of consumers swing towards what they see as complementary, or even replacements, for pursuing the former route.
There is the fact that its original insights come out of Los Alamos and its focus on RNA gene expression — an approach that it says “enables us to provide individuals with recommendations that can be effective, dynamic, and relevant to their current state of health,” but also its use of AI.
In turn Viome interprets that data, it says, using “modern AI, machine learning, and bioinformatics methods running on massive cloud computing…to identify what is important for human health, and translate those findings into personalized nutritional recommendations for each customer.” It claims to have more than 35 predictive models of chronic diseases including diabetes, obesity, depression, IBS and IBD, and says it has FDA breakthrough device designation “for its ability to detect early-stage cancer in the mouth and throat using saliva with 95% specificity and over 90% sensitivity.”
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