"We anticipate few if any delays in delivering results to customers," uBiome told its clients in an email.
For a time, uBiome used doctors who belonged to the clinical care network of Nurx, a birth control startup, to sign off on its tests.
I tried a gut-microbiome test kit from uBiome, hoping to learn more about the trillions of organisms in my digestive tract. I came away surprised.
George Canellos, a partner at Milbank who serves as the global head of the firm's litigation and arbitration group, will run the investigation.
Insiders say uBiome billed individuals and insurers repeatedly and ran extra tests as a way to boost revenue, then showed those figures to investors.