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Comment
. 2010 Apr 6;107(14):6125-6.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1002112107. Epub 2010 Apr 1.

Harnessing the power of the human microbiome

Martin J Blaser  1
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Harnessing the power of the human microbiome

Martin J Blaser. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The author declares no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Five fundamental biological questions that underlie the Human Microbiome Project. Initially, answers are phenomenologic but ultimately must be understood in the context of evolutionary processes. Along the way, myriad applications will be discovered. The red leg represents about 1/10 of the human body, symbolizing 1013 human cells in a host with 1014 microbial cells (10).
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  • Forensic identification using skin bacterial communities.
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