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Microbiome researchers challenge the state of the art in colon cancer biomarker discovery - EurekAlert


<strong>For the first time, researchers from VIB-KU Leuven, UZ Leuven, Janssen Pharmaceutica and multiple international collaborators have introduced quantitative methods and&nbsp;extensive confounder control to discover microbiome biomarkers in colorectal cancer development. While multiple microbial taxa have been put forward as potential cancer-associated biomarkers in the past, this new study uncovers obscured contributions that may have resulted in incorrect associations. The results have been published in </strong><em><strong>Nature Medicine</strong></em><strong>.</strong>

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