​IBM, Broad and MGH launch crowdsourced project to map human microbiome

A deal between tech giant IBM, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute aims to use your computer to map the three million bacterial genes found in the human microbiome. Much like the effort to map the human genome nearly two decades earlier, the new effort, called The Microbiome Immunity Project, aims to study the bacteria that live in and on the human body and are believed to affect health. The goal is to better understand the microbiome’s affect on health, an d specifically how…
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