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

• Allez savoir!: La Suisse abritera une banque mondiale de selles
• RTS: Sauvez nos microbiotes
• BIOspektrum: Schätze für die Gesundheit bewahren
• Tages-Anzeiger das Magazin: Alarm im Darm – Symptome, Ursachen, Behandlungen

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
• Kathimerini: Ένα 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

• Time: Human Health Is in the Hands of Bacteria
• Discover Magazine: Scientists Race to Preserve the Biodiversity Inside Our Bodies
• Rutgers Magazine: Gut Check Time
• Spektrum: Unsere Darmvielfalt ist bedroht

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