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Where is microbiota research headed? What needs to be done for this field to live up to its promise? In a roundtable discussion, Anand Jagatia puts these questions to Rochellys Heijtz, Jennifer Wargo and Eran Elinav, three researchers at the cutting-edge of the discipline.
2019 is the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements, marking 150 years since Dmitri Mendeleev ordered the elements into a table as we know it today. Our Nature Research periodic table features editors’ picks from 150 years of original research published in Nature and the Nature Research journals, commentaries and multimedia for elements 1 through 118.