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Priorities for the next 10 years of human microbiome research

The dream of microbiome-based medicine requires a fresh approach — an ecological and evolutionary understanding of host-microbe interactions — argues Lita Proctor.
  1. Lita Proctor

    1. Lita Proctor is former Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Coordinator at the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

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Over the past decade, more than US$1.7 billion has been spent on human microbiome research. Major projects are under way in the United States, the European Union, China, Canada, Ireland, South Korea and Japan.

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Nature 569, 623-625 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01654-0

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