[podcast] Author Commentary: Travis Whitfill on 'Commensal Cosmetics'

Mar 15th, 2018

Rachel Grabenhofer

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"I think when it comes to the skin microbiome, there’s a lot of pseudoscience being done," says Travis Whitfill, co-founder and CSO of Azitra Inc. "So my goal for [the article] was to push the more technical and scientific basis of the skin microbiome in relation to cosmetics and potential skin therapies, and to anchor to the recent science."

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