by GMFH Editing Team
A wide range of factors may shape milk microbiota composition. Meghan B. Azad and colleagues have recently shown that the method of breastfeeding is the most consistent factor related to milk microbiota composition.
A new article published in Nature reveals new information about the link between gut microbiota and infant development, evolution and the transition from infancy to childhood.
During TEDxHa’pennyBridge in Dublin, Principal Investigator at the APC Microbiome Institute in Cork, John Cryan, gave a talk about the connection between the gut, brain and microbiome, and its impact on psychiatric and immune disorders.
by Andreu Prados
A new study has found that maternal gut and breast milk microbiomes may contribute to infant acquisition of antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements.
by Andreu Prados
Two recent studies published in Cell Host Microbe have provided a longitudinal characterization of the microbiome’s transmission from mother to infant over the first few months of life.
A recent study, which was the largest in the field and published in JAMA Pediatrics, reveals that breastfeeding favors the implantation of a healthy gut microbiota in babies.
by Kristina Campbell
A new study by a group of scientists from Danone Nutricia Research (the Netherlands), the Laboratory of Microbiology at Wageningen University (the Netherlands), and the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London (United Kingdom) explored how the gut microbiota tracks eczema development in early life—and also whether gut microbiota composition was modulated by a prebiotic early-life dietary intervention.
by Andreu Prados
A recent study has found that ethnicity and infant feeding practices independently influence the infant gut microbiome at 1 year.
The Harvard Probiotics Symposium, “Gut health, microbiota & probiotics throughout the lifespan: Metabolic & brain function”, was held on September 15th and 16th at Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA).
by Cristina Sáez
Worldwide each year more than a million infants are born to women infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus causing AIDS.
