The study of the gut microbiome of infants in nurseries revealed that peer-to-peer interaction during the first years of life is a prominent route of acquisition of microbial strain diversity. The ...

A large proportion of a baby’s developing microbiota comes from their peers at nursery, even after just one month of attendance, an analysis has found. The study, published today in Nature 1, analysed ...

Mother-baby bonding is crucial to a child’s development and leads to decreased recidivism rates, according to research. But prison nurseries aren't the ideal place to grow up. In Nebraska, the ...