Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body.

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Published in PLoS Biol on August 19, 2016

Authors

Ron Sender1, Shai Fuchs2, Ron Milo1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
2: Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Associated clinical trials:

Survey of the Facial Bacteriome | NCT04180748

Nutritional Intervention for Endometriosis | NCT05175248

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