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Race in the Microbiome

2020-03-18

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Microbiome science asserts humans are made up of more microbial cells and genes than human ones, and that each person harbors their own unique microbial population. Human microbiome studies gesture toward the post-racial aspirations of personalized medicine—characterizing states of human health and illness microbially. By viewing humans as “supraorganisms” made up of millions of microbial partners, some microbiome...

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Literature Corpus work: 1a9751ac-1960-5402-9889-d9b24c4a72d7
DOI: 10.1177/0162243920911998

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