Mining “Brown Gems”: Stools of Top Athletes Power Gut-Health Venture

Suzuki Keita of the Urawa Reds in a soccer match against Yokohama FC at Nissan Stadium, Kanagawa Prefecture, on December 1, 2007. (© Jiji)

AuB Chief Technical Officer Fujikawa Rintarō. Under Fujikawa’s leadership, AuB signed a contract with JSR Corp. to use the company’s state-of-the-art research facilities in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. (© Kawamoto Seiya)

Bacterial DNA collected from stool samples is stored in a freezer. (© Kawamoto Seiya)

An athlete’s stool sample. (© Kawamoto Seiya)

(© Kawamoto Seiya)