Allergy, Asthma Risk Are Increased by Microbial Compound in Infant Gut

Dr. Susan Lynch’s Research ‘Paves the Way’ for Early Interventions to Prevent Childhood Inflammatory Diseases

CHIPPER Collaborator Susan Lynch, PhD, and her lab have identified a compound produced by gut bacteria in newborn infants that appears to predispose certain infants to allergies and asthma later in life.

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