The Dynamics of the Human Infant Gut Microbiome in Development and in Progression toward Type 1 Diabetes

Mikael Knip and his colleagues, from the University of Helsinki, have been taking advantage of a natural human experiment in the WWII partition of former Karelia between Russia and Finland to investigate the relationship between human gut microbiota and susceptibility or resistance to autoimmune diseases. Here they look at Type 1 diabetes and show characteristic […]

from The Evolution and Medicine Review http://ift.tt/1O8AO6Z