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Published online 1 June 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060529-8
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Baby's first microbes sized up
The bugs picked up by newborns guts could bear on later life.
Scientists have logged a year in the life of 14 babies' intestines, and found that our early gut microbes bear a legacy from our very first exposure to bugs. And this early bacterial colony could have a lasting impact on our guts.
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