The Obama administration on Friday will announce the latest in its scientific “moonshots,” this one in the red-hot field of microbiomes — the trillions of micro-organisms in places like soil and the human gut.
The new National Microbiome Initiative is intended to create scientific tools, discoveries and training techniques that could advance efforts to cure asthma and depression, clean up oil spills and even increase crop yields. The initiative will involve more than a dozen federal agencies, top universities, major philanthropies and corporate giants.
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