Infant Microbiome Develops in Three Stages

By now, we know that the microbiome is important. But, despite all of the attention, exactly what role our commensal bacteria play in human disease remains largely unknown. Two papers were published back-to-back in  Nature  this week, the largest clinical microbiome studies done to date, that are trying to answer this question.In one study, titled “ Temporal development of the gut microbiome in early childhood from the TEDDY study ,” a team of researchers led by Joseph Petr