America's National Institutes of Health, which he heads, is backing yet another of genomics' big collaborative efforts, the Human Microbiome Project, to help put that right.

ECONOMIST: Inhuman genomes

Less fancifully, the Human Microbiome Project is in the stage the human genome project was a decade ago, when all that was really available was a single reference genome built from the DNA of anonymous volunteers.

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