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Huh? Just survey people’s microbiomes, run cultures and use the drugs in the feedstock.

• WalterSear 7y ago
  A number of human microbes aren't culturable yet.
  • sjg007 7y ago
    I guess you do an in vivo post hoc analysis then.
    • WalterSear 7y ago
      In vivo bacterial population data isn't all that accessible yet either. Faecal bacterial samples have turned out to be poor representatives of the gut microbiome, so in vivo sampling requires endoscopy. Fwiw, there are multiple biomes to sample too, with different types of bacteria lining the intestinal walls and other kinds populating the crypts, for instance. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4837114/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4837114/