Nature to retract a highly influential Cancer Microbiome Study
Claiming that a blood sample’s microbial mix can indicate the presence of a tumor, the study inspired further research and led to the founding of a company to commercialize the findings.
A highly influential paper that claimed to have identified specific microbial signatures associated with various human cancers has been retracted after journal editors concluded that the findings were unsupported1.
The research employed machine-learning algorithms …
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