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Scrip Asks… Is The Microbiome Hype Or Happening?

 
• By Jessica Merrill and Lucie Ellis-Taitt

Buzz is growing over the potential of research on the microbiome to yield new therapeutics. Scrip asked pharma, academics and venture capitalists how long it might take to see results, what breakthroughs are needed and which therapeutic areas might benefit first. Vote to tell us what you think.

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Research is exploding is around the microbiome, the trillions of microbes living in and on the human body, as a means to address a range of diseases. Academics are conducting early research, VCs are backing microbiome-focused start-ups and even big pharma is waking up to the potential for new therapeutics based on manipulating the microbiome.

But the reality is there is a lot to be sorted out when it comes to understanding how the microbiome works, how changes in microbiome impact disease and how therapeutics can be developed that target the microbiome –

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