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Acknowledgments
The APC Microbiome Institute is a research centre funded by Science Foundation Ireland, through the Irish Government's National Development Plan. The authors and their work are supported by Science Foundation Ireland (grant number SFI/12/RC/2273) and through EU GRANT 613979 (MYNEWGUT FP7-KBBE-2013-7). The first author is supported by the Health Research Board through Health Research Awards (grant number HRA-POR-2-14-647; GC) and by the Health Service Executive through the Healthy Ageing Award (HaPAI/2015/GC). These funding bodies did not play any role in the writing of this editorial.