microbes that live in our intestines, many of which help us stay healthy.
“All these are smoking guns to indicate the microbiota may be involved in it, but there were no experiments to prove it,” said researcher Brett Finlay during a press conference Tuesday. But now he and his colleagues at the University of British Columbia say they’ve found evidence: infants who later developed asthma had lower levels of four types of gut bacteria. They published their results in the journal Science Translational Medicine