Newborn gut microbiome predicts later allergy and asthma.

A new paper published last week in Nature Medicine shows that the gut microbes present in some one-month old infants predict a three-fold higher risk of developing allergies by age 2 and asthma by age 4, says a press release issued by the University of California in San Francisco. The study’s senior author, Susan Lynch […]

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