The January 5th 2018 issue of the journal SCIENCE from AAAS has a number of articles about how the microbiome can influence cancer treatment. In our monthly call with the Microbiome Immunity Project researchers, they have been talking to the researchers working on the microbiome-cancer connection and may be able to collaborate, expanding this project. We expect more news about this from the researchers in a few months. Given the large amount of work the project needs to perform on World Community Grid, we will be looking at launching a recruitment campaign. The cancer connection should also help to get more people interested in contributing to this project. Meanwhile the researchers are working on their postprocessing pipeline which receives results data from World Community Grid.