With a closer look at immune systems, scientists hope to steer infants back onto a healthy track
What if you could give vulnerable infants an immunological tweak to steer them back onto a healthy track?
What if you could lower the risk that newborns would develop life-threatening infections? Optimize — even personalize — the timing of vaccines given early in life? Figure out which babies aren’t developing competent immune systems or are at risk of type 1 diabetes? What if you could give them an immunological tweak to steer them back onto a healthy track?
New research suggests those “what ifs?” may someday be reality.
A , from researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital and colleagues in several other countries, used minute amounts of blood drawn in the first week of life to
