Applying ecological principles to microbiome engineering

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• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Nature Microbiology

• Publication date

  2025-08-05

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/s41564-025-02076-7PMID 40764435
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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