Breast-feeding may compensate for the reduced transmission of maternal microbes during Caesarean section compared with natural birth, according to a new observational study led by the University of ...

The gut and breast milk microbiomes both harbored antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) with distinct diversity and ...

Cesarean delivery has adverse associations with fertility, future pregnancy outcome. Investigators assessed the impact of maternal antibiotic administration timing on infant gut colonization in babies ...

Researchers have discovered a new mode of vertical mother-to-infant microbiome transmission, where microbes in the maternal gut shared genes with microbes in the infant gut during the perinatal period ...

As the microbiome field has matured over the past decade, some questions have been answered easily, while others have remained more difficult. One of the most complicated and challenging biological ...

Do cesarean-born babies miss out on essential microbes? New evidence suggests that the answer may be “no.” Researchers report March 8 in the journal Cell Host & Microbe that mothers are able to ...

Hebrew University of Jerusalem is proud to announce that Prof. Moran Yassour, a leading researcher at the Faculty of Medicine and the School of Computer Science and Engineering, has been selected as ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When a mother gives birth vaginally and if ...

Vaccines are among the most successful advancements in modern medicine, with several successfully protecting against polio, tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, mumps, and rubella. However, ...