Media Coverage

2025

  • The Econimic Times: A doomsday poop vault! Here’s why scientists are freezing 10,000 samples of human feces
  • ABC: Se buscan 10.000 muestras de heces humanas para salvar nuestro futuro: así es la Bóveda de la Microbiota
  • Infobae: Por qué una bóveda en Suiza busca congelar virus, bacterias y microbios de todo el mundo
  • Agence Science-Presse: Préserver la diversité microbienne pour les futures générations
  • Ouest-France: Mais pourquoi ce pays conserve-t-il des milliers d’excréments humains dans un coffre-fort géant?
  • Times of India: Why researchers are building a poop vault with 10,000 frozen ..
  • Firstpost: ‘Poop vault’: Why scientists in Switzerland are freezing human waste

  • El Adeltando: Confirmed – Swiss scientists store the human microbiome in a cryogenic vault to preserve life as we know it

  • yahoo!news: ‘Doomsday vault’ in Switzerland stores human poop to protect microbes for 100 years

  • Federazione Nazionale degli Ordini dei Biologi: “Salvare i microbiomi sani, al via il progetto Microbiota Vault Initiative”

  • MSN: ‘Doomsday vault’ in Switzerland stores human poop to protect microbes for 100 years

  • Earth.com:“Microbial vault: The race to save Earth’s disappearing microbes”
  • Rutgers Health:“A Global Microbiome Preservation Effort Enters Its Growth Phase”
  • News-Medical: “Can a global vault save the world’s threatened microbiomes?”
  • Live Science  “It is our obligation to future generations’: Scientists want thousands of human poop samples for microbe ‘doomsday vault2
  • gazeta.ru:  Ученые создали «Ноев ковчег» для микробов

  • Visegrád Post: “Doomsday Poop Vault Activated”: Scientists Store Human Waste to Preserve Life-Critical Microbes for a Collapsing Future
  • Focus.it: Salute Giornata mondiale del microbioma: si lavora alla banca dei microrganismi “buoni”
  • Báo Mói: Bảo tồn hệ vi sinh vật người:Phân cũng là tài nguyên quý giá của khoa học
  • Globo: Por que cientistas vão depositar milhares de fezes humanas no ‘cofre do juízo final’
  • 20 Minutes: Des milliers d’excréments récoltés et congelés dans un bunker pour les générations futures
  • Aventuras na História: Entenda por que milhares de fezes humanas serão depositadas no ‘cofre do juízo final’
  • Tienphong: Thu thập ‘chất thải’ người cho hầm chứa vi khuẩn ngày tận thế
  • lenord.ca: Préserver la diversité microbienne pour les futures générations
  • Levante: Crean un “archivo” de excrementos humanos para dejar como legado de nuestra diversidad microbiana a las próximas generaciones
  • Magazin GEO: Ce “coffre-fort” contre l’apocalypse va stocker… des excréments humains: voici pourquoi
  • Slate.fr: Des chercheurs veulent congeler 10.000 échantillons d’excréments dans un bunker suisse, mais pour quoi faire?
  • Wired: Microbioma intestinale, una banca della cacca per salvarlo
  • Science:  “‘A publicity problem’: New group pushes for microbes to be conserved like other endangered species” by Jon Cohen
  • Trends in Microbiology: “Solutions to expand microbiome sciences in the Caribbean Region: an insider’s perspective” by Filipa Godoy-Vitorino


2024


2023

  • PLOS Your Say: Conserving Earth’s microbial biodiversity before it’s too late
  • Positive.News: Why are scientists creating a bank for human poo?
  • Beobachter: Ein Tresor für unser Mikrobiom
  • BBC News Mundo: El “banco global de heces” que científicos están creando en Suiza para luchar contra la silenciosa extinción de las bacterias
  • Urgente24: Microbiota Vault: ‘Arca de Noé de caca’ en ¿Patagonia?
  • Discover Magazine: Why We Need Microbiome Labs: The Microbiota Vault Project
  • 24 heures: L’UNIL veut enfouir une banque mondiale du microbiote intestinal dans les Alpes
  • Le Temps: Là-haut sur la montagne, une banque mondiale du microbiote intestinal
  • Bluewin: Exkremente aus aller Welt sollen in den Alpen gelagert werden
  • RTS: Des chercheurs suisses stockent des selles pour sauvegarder le microbiote humain
  • RBB24 INFORADIO: Microbiota Vault: “Mikrobiotischer Tresor” in der Schweiz
  • Il Post: Un grande archivio mondiale della cacca
  • BBC News Swahili: Wanasayansi kufunguliwa benki ya Dunia ya kinyesi cha binadamu nchini Uswizi
  • BBC News Brasil: O ‘banco global de fezes’ que cientistas estão criando na Suíça
  • KathimeriniΈνα θησαυροφυλάκιο με «καλά» μικρόβια
  • Everyeye: Sta per essere costruito un vault dell’apocalisse pieno di cacca umana, ecco perché
  • OLAFAQ: Το μικροβίωμα του εντέρου ίσως κρύβει σημαντικά μυστικά για τη θεραπεία ασθενειών στο μακρινό μέλλον
  • Canal extremadura: Turno de tarde
  • W Radio: Se está creando un banco de heces humanas para preservar la humanidad
  • Expresso: Microbiota Vault: recolha de fezes humanas inicia contrarrelógio contra extinção de bactérias e fungos e portugueses participam no projeto
  • Newsbeast: Το κλειδί για τη σωτηρία της ανθρωπότητας κρύβεται στα… κόπρανα – Τι βρήκαν οι επιστήμονες
  • The Times: Stool bank will store novel gut bacteria to stop humanity going down the pan
  • IFL Science: There Will Soon Be A Doomsday Vault For Human Poop
  • WIRED: A Mass Extinction Is Taking Place in the Human Gut


2022

  • Horizonte: Die Ära des Mikrobioms beginnt
  • Usbek & Rica: Pourquoi l’humanité a perdu la moitié de son microbiome en 50 ans
  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Microbiome experts warn of an ‘invisible extinction’ of gut bacteria that’s harming human health
  • RTS: Rencontre avec Pascale Vonaesch grande spécialiste du microbiote
  • Swissinfo: Saving microbial diversity, one stool sample at a time (available in EN, DE, FR, IT, AR, PT, JP)
  • Science: Studies of human microbiome have ignored the developing world, potentially compromising treatments
  • RFI: PALOP participam no projecto mundial de criação de “Arca de Noé microbiana”
  • Diário de Notícias: Uma corrida contra o tempo para salvar micróbios essenciais à vida humana


2021

  • NIEHS: Scientists explore exposures, microbiome, and nervous system
  • NZZ Magazin: Aus diesen Stuhlproben wird vielleicht einmal Gold
  • Muy Interesante: Un arca de Noé en tu cuerpo


2020

  • Newswise: “Microbial Noah’s Ark” Initiative Should Move to Next Phase, Study Finds
  • SCNAT Hotspot: Verborgene Biodiversität 

  • Digital Trends: Noah’s Ark, but for germs. Inside the plan to build a doomsday bank of bacteria
  • Microbiologia Italia: “Microbiota Vault”: l’arca di Noè per salvare la diversità microbica
  • Daily Express: ‘Noah’s Ark for germs’ Scientist preparing for doomsday by building huge bacteria vault
  • HowStuffWorks: Scientists Call for a Global Germ Bank
  • 20 Minuten: Schweiz als Standort für «Arche Noah für Mikroorganismen» im Gespräch
  • Publico: Vai ser criado um cofre para os micróbios da humanidade
  • ElNuevoDia: Un Arca de Noé para los microbios
  • ScienceNews: Scientists want to build a Noah’s Ark for the human microbiome
  • Blick: Schweiz als Standort für «Arche Noah der Mikroorganismen»
  • Heidi.News: EXCLUSIF — Un bunker de l’armée suisse pourrait devenir l’Arche de Noé du microbiote humain
  • Higgs: Warum Tausende von Fäkalproben in einem Schweizer Bunker aufbewahrt werden sollen
  • LeTemps: La Suisse, terre d’accueil pour une arche de Noé microbienne?


2019


2018

  • The Washington Post: The silent microbiome crisis
  • NPR: A Frozen Idea To Save Helpful Germs From Disasters
  • ScienceDaily: Scientists call for microbial ‘Noah’s Ark’ to protect global health
  • Bloomberg: Scientists Urge Doomsday Vault for ‘Good’ Germs
  • U.S. News & World Report: Can a ‘Noah’s Ark’ of Microbes Save the World’s Health?
  • Business Insider: Scientists want to build a doomsday vault of germs that could one day help save humanity
  • The Daily Mail: Scientists reveal plan to create doomsday ‘Noah’s Ark’ for good germs to protect humanity against future disease
  • The Guardian: Build ‘Noah’s ark’ for beneficial gut microbes, scientists say
  • IFL Science: Scientists Want To Create A “Noah’s Ark” Of Bacteria To Protect The Future Of Global Health
  • Inverse: A Doomsday Vault for Seeds Isn’t Enough, We’ll Also Need One for Our Germ

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