Vive la Persistence: Engineering Human Microbiomes in the 21st Century

ABSTRACT I imagine a future in which children grow up with healthy microbial communities. Engineering human microbiomes might actually be achievable in the near future, as we enter an era of hunting for human-adapted bacterial strains and phages. Furthermore, breath metabolites could allow us to tra...

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Main Author: Katrine L. Whiteson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-04-01
Series:mSystems
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00166-17