“Put another way, microbiology is still in its cataloguing phase, akin to 18th century botanists pressing flowers into their notebooks. When I see the many microbiology research projects cropping up—from the kitty microbiome to koala microbiome to the open-source American Gut—I think of Carl Linnaeus trudging through Sweden cataloguing the country’s plants and animals. Scientists are surveying the microbial world, but it’ll be while before they amass enough knowledge to really figure out what to do with it.”
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I guess three years ago was before someone discovered that the cell phone is germiest thing most people owned.