Microbes blaze a trail on the genetic frontier

Monday, April 16, 2012 - 23:30 in Health & Medicine

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Someday, microbiomes just might give us a world where crude oil is grown like a crop, where vaccines for new flu strains can be produced in days instead of months, and where physicians can tweak the bacteria in your gut to cure what ails you.

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