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A paper claiming to detect cancer-based on a person’s resident microbes has been retracted.

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paper that claimed to have identified specific microbial signatures associated with various human cancers has been retracted after journal editors concluded that the findings were unsupported¹.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 …