Will you soon be asked to give a specimen to assess your microbiome? Elizabeth Tracey reports

06/10/2025 1 min
Will you soon be asked to give a specimen to assess your microbiome? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Certain bacteria resident on people’s bodies do confer an increased risk for pancreas cancer, a new study finds. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, says assessing this type of risk requires analysis of bacteria resident … Will you soon be asked to give a specimen to assess your microbiome? Elizabeth Tracey reports »

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