A Woman's Journey Managing Your Microbiome: How It May Help Your Health
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A Woman's Journey: Conversations that Matter December's monthly Hopkins at Home features infectious disease and cancer researcher Dr. Cynthia Sears discussing what the microbiome is, what changes it, and how emerging discoveries have revealed its broad impact on health and disease. Dr. Sears discusses her research on ‘“driver bacteria” and early approaches to using the microbiome as a modifiable tool to improve colon cancer detection and patient responses to cancer immunotherapy.
Dr. Cynthia L. Sears, Professor of Medicine. Click the link for bio.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/cynthia-sears
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