New tool to boost battle against childhood undernutrition (IMAGE)

University of Virginia Health System

New tool to boost battle against childhood undernutrition

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The research model created by UVA’s Carrie A. Cowardin, PhD, and colleagues provides a more sophisticated way to study the effects of undernutrition on the microbiome, the microbes that naturally live inside the gut, and, in turn, on growth and the immune system.

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