Melding microbiome and nutritional science with early child development

Nat Med. 2021 Sep;27(9):1503-1506. doi: 10.1038/s41591-021-01451-1.

Robert Y Chen^{1

2}, Ishita Mostafa³, Matthew C Hibberd^{1

2}, Subhasish Das³, Hannah M Lynn^{1

2}, Daniel M Webber^{1

2}, Mustafa Mahfuz³, Michael J Barratt^{1

2}, Tahmeed Ahmed³, Jeffrey I Gordon^{4

5}

¹ The Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
² Center for Gut Microbiome and Nutrition Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
³ International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁴ The Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. jgordon@wustl.edu.
⁵ Center for Gut Microbiome and Nutrition Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. jgordon@wustl.edu.

Abstract

Programs for treating malnutrition in children should consider how food formulations affect postnatal gut microbiome development.