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Nigel Field

Nigel Field

Sep 17, 2026

5:30
No,
5:31
it's Baby Biome Study.
5:33
So we got funding for this study in around 2013 from the Wellcome Trust and together with some colleagues at the Sanger Institute near Cambridge.
5:42
In 2016 and 2017, we recruited about three and a half thousand mums and their babies right at the end of pregnancy.
5:50
And we got the mums to send us back a lot of the baby poop in the first weeks of life because...
5:57
Megan's talked about how important these microbes might be for health.
6:03
And the moment of birth is a really special moment for lots of reasons, but not least because it's the moment that you really start to get colonized.

16 MINS LATER

22:03
I just wondered if you could talk a little bit about that.

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