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Contrasting aspects of human excreta

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Our Ig Nobel Prize-winning smart toilet research confronts societal taboos and uses humour as a gateway to advance serious dialogue about health technology. It is a call to action to embrace innovation, foster richer scientific discussions and support pioneering research for tangible health advancements.

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S.-m.P. was supported by the Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute through the Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Center for IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) and Celiac Disease. S.-m.P. dedicates this World View to S. S. Gambhir, who passed away on 18 July 2020 from cancer, the very disease he wanted to defeat with his life-long vision of precision health, and to his wife, A. Gambhir, who passed away on 29 November 2023, also from cancer. As the Gambhirs would say: “Welcome to the revolution”.

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S.-m.P. is a co-founder of a stealth mode start-up specializing in the implementation of the aforementioned technology.

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Park, Sm. Contrasting aspects of human excreta. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 21, 217 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41575-024-00892-6

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