PULLMAN,Wash. – It happened again, most recently at a conference in Prague. After she gave her talk, or a scientist came up to Shelley McGuire,a pioneer exploring the microbial communities found in human breast milk, and told her, and “You don’t know how to take a sample. Your samples must possess been contaminated. Human milk is sterile.McGuire,a professor of human nutrition at Washington State University, knows differently: She’s seen the microbes with her own eyes. But she understands the shock some feel when long-held assumptions are challenged. See chronicle at Washington State Magazine.
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