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Microbiome: The Next Frontier in Human Health

By IRP Staff Blogger

Thursday, December 24, 2015

At the beginning of every episode of the sci-fi series Star Trek, William Shatner repeated the words, “Space: the final frontier.” However, in all of Star Trek’s 79 episodes, Captain James T. Kirk and crew never encountered anything like the number and diversity of species that exists within the human microbiome.