All foetal microbiome articles
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Opinion
Vexed concept of a ‘foetal microbiome’ refuted
A team of international experts has refuted scientific claims that human foetuses harbour live microbes during healthy pregnancies.
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News
Experts refute theory that humans are colonised by bacteria before birth
Scientific claims that babies harbour live bacteria while still in the womb are inaccurate, and may have impeded research progress, according to University College Cork (UCC) researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland, a world-leading Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centre.
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Features
The usually sterile womb
Culture-independent next-generation sequencing technologies have given us a far deeper understanding of the microbiome composition of various important health-related niches.