Investors Think This Company's Gut Bacteria Are Worth $1.9 Billion

Wall Street loves feces—or at least the promise that it will one day yield new medical treatments.

Shares of Seres Therapeutics, a company trying to create new medicines from the bacteria in the human gut, nearly tripled in their first day of trading on Friday, giving the company a first-day market cap of $1.9 billion.

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