Our personal ecosystem of microbes is shed on everything we touch and everyplace we go. Charles Schmidt reports on efforts to harness this information to improve human health and activity.
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Schmidt, C. Living in a microbial world. Nat Biotechnol 35, 401–403 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3868
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