Powered by Venture Funding, the Microbiome Market is Ready for Mainstream

Publications

Publication of scientific papers focused on microbiome research has been surging with over 75K publications in 2020 with stable growth of 24% in the past three years. Microbiome research has increased dramatically in recent years, driven by advances in enabling technologies such as next-generation sequencing (NGS), bioinformatics, gene editing, synthetic biology, metabolomics, and significant reductions in the cost of sequencing, gene synthesis. 

This wealth of research has enabled utility in a diverse spectrum of fields spanning environmental, agriculture, medical (incl. therapeutics and diagnostics) to consumer markets such as food and personal care.

Environmental research is focused on harnessing the microbiome to predict ecosystem response such as engineering of microbiomes to modify structures of the microbiota and restoring ecological balance. While microbiome engineering and plant microbiome interactions are being researched to improve agricultural productivity.

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