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Space Scientists Pinpoint Genetic Link to Asthma
Tracing asthma in Hutterite communities helps scientists
Space Scientists Pinpoint Genetic Link to Asthma
Dr. Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello is working to find out how modern Western lifestyles affect the development of our microbiomes.
account for increased risks of diseases including asthma
Humans Scientists Pinpoint Genetic Link to Asthma
When he was 8 years old, Theodore Roosevelt found a seal skull. It would be the first specimen in his very own natural history museum.
Fact For much of his life, Roosevelt suffered from asthma
Explore how changes in the human microbiome may be contributing to an increase in obesity and other chronic conditions.
calls “modern plagues”—obesity, childhood diabetes, asthma
When he was 8 years old, Theodore Roosevelt found a seal skull. It would be the first specimen in his very own natural history museum.
Fact For much of his life, Roosevelt suffered from asthma
The Secret World Inside You is a special exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History that explores rapidly evolving science that is revealing the complexities of the human microbiome and reshaping our ideas about human health.
perspectives on common health problems including allergies, asthma
A bacterium responsible for ulcers may be a line of defense against other diseases.
suggest that it is essential to the prevention of asthma
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honing in on inherited components of diseases such as asthma
You get your DNA from both parents. But your microbiome is acquired from your mother on the way out of the womb.
development of conditions including food allergies and asthma