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Researchers, Drug Developers Discuss Progress on Therapies to Modify the Microbiome

Feb 01, 2016
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Molika Ashford
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Microbiome research may be turning a corner, according to some researchers and industry leaders at the Personalized Medicine World Conference in Silicon Valley. In a few short years, the field has gone from doing its best just to describe and dissect the immense diversity of microbial communities that inhabit the human body, to one where strategies are emerging for translating these discoveries into treatments for a variety of diseases.

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