Caesarean birth: sex-specific effects on the microbiota

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Source: INRAE - Rebeca Martín Rosique

A research team investigating microbial colonisation in early life set out to understand how delivery mode and sex interact over the course of development, and whether this interaction could affect susceptibility to intestinal diseases such as colitis in adulthood. 

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