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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		The fingerprints of asthma and allergies
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:02
	Publish Date:		2017-02-01 18:00:00
	Description:		Bacteria and fungi are fingerprints of asthma and allergies, which newborn children could develop later in life. Susan Lynch, a gastroenterologist at the University of California, San Francisco, tested stool samples of about 300 babies and found that when bacteria and fungi interact, sometimes it changes microbiota and can trigger the diseases. "So this kind of a new technology where it allows us to look at variations in specific genes characteristically found in bacteria and fungi. Variation in those genes will allow us to assess which microbes the genes came from. And in that way, we can get a sense of which bacteria and which fungi are present in the gut of these children". Lynch says this discovery will help researchers advance their testing techniques and predict more precisely if children might become allergic or asthmatic.
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