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The ick factor that could save a life: US cancer researchers look to fecal waste for treatment clues

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Mayo Clinic biobank is part of effort to “personalize’ medicine by uncovering how the microbiome changes how patients react to cancer medications.

Every person has a microbiome, a collection of 100tn “microbial symbionts”: bacteria.

Microbiomes are what “we rely [on] to aid in nutrition, resist pathogens, and educate our immune system”.