23 August 2022FeaturesBiotechnologyIne Vanderleyden
Microbial consortia and IP in Europe
Our body hosts trillions of microorganisms that live symbiotically on and within the human body. This ‘microbiome’ is essential to our health and microbial imbalance or dysbiosis increases the susceptibility to many diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), liver disease, atherosclerosis, and other severe pathologies. Given its central role in health and disease, the microbiome has become a prominent therapeutic target.
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