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John Lukens, University of Virginia

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John Lukens, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Department of Neuroscience and Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG), has determined the health of an expectant mother's microbiome determines the risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The microbiome is the collection of microscopic organisms that naturally live inside us.

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Dan Addison | University of Virginia Communications

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