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Tag: amniotic fluid

Microbes in the Womb

By Alex Alexiev   Posted in Information and Resources News Research
Posted on December 30, 2015December 30, 2015

The list of things that are sterile is shrinking as DNA sequencing methods become more sensitive and are able to pick up microbial signals in even the sparsest environments. A news article in the Times discusses research on the microbiome of the human womb and the fact that it is not actually as sterile as …

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