All Early Life Microbiome articles – Page 5

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    Careers

    The Stewart Lab

    2023-02-06T10:22:00Z

    The Stewart Lab at Newcastle University are working to harness the infant gut microbiome to predict disease and personalise preventative therapy.

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    News

    New mode of horizontal gene transfer between maternal and infant gut microbiome uncovered

    2022-12-22T16:00:00Z

    Researchers have discovered a new mode of vertical mother-to-infant microbiome transmission, where microbes in the maternal gut shared genes with microbes in the infant gut during the perinatal period starting immediately before birth and extending though the first few weeks after birth.

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    Features

    The usually sterile womb

    2022-09-05T13:17:00Z

    Culture-independent next-generation sequencing technologies have given us a far deeper understanding of the microbiome composition of various important health-related niches.