Babies, Bacteria and Breast Milk: Genome Sequence Reveals Evolutionary Alliance
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 16:49
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- As every parent discovers, human babies are bubbling, burping processing plants that take in milk, extract compounds useful for rapid growth and development, and unceremoniously excrete the byproducts. Those babies` guts are full of helpful bacteria, and a new study shows how humans and bacteria evolved together.
