Mount Sinai scientists take novel approach to restore the microbiome of C-section newborns

Scientists from the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, collaborating with NYU Langone Medical Center and a multi-center team of researchers, demonstrated for the first time that the microbiome of newborn babies delivered via cesarean section (C-section) can be partially restored to resemble that of vaginally delivered infants. By swabbing newborns with a gauze containing vaginal fluids from their mothers, and later testing samples ...