There has been a conspicuous increase in life-threatening food allergies in societies adopting or hosting Western-based culture. One hypothesis to explain this rising morbidity in a highly specific demographic is current lifestyle practices, such as overuse of antibiotics, has altered the human gut microbiome, the collective genome of microorganisms that live in the human gut.  Now, a study from researchers at the University of Chicago … Continue reading Gut microbes from healthy infants block milk allergy development in mice.