Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Changes in the gut microbiota of infants preceded the development of eczema, according to a study published in ...

A study of 1,585 pregnant women during the COVID-19 era reveals that prenatal risk as defined by a multitude of maternal ...

New research suggests human babies’ helpless start may influence how we learn, build relationships, and develop as social ...

Infants' helplessness demonstrates unique social implications for human development. In a new paper developmental psychology ...

A metagenomic comparison of the infant gut microbiota assembly from industrialized and nonindustrialized populations reveals robust and systematic lifestyle-dependent divergences, researchers report.

Matching the sight and sound of speech — a face to a voice — in early infancy is an important foundation for later language development. This ability, known as intersensory processing, is an essential ...

Researchers have discovered a new mode of vertical mother-to-infant microbiome transmission, where microbes in the maternal gut shared genes with microbes in the infant gut during the perinatal period ...

Despite a host of checks and balances that usually prevent harmful genetic mutations, sometimes mistakes happen, with serious ...

As any parent can attest, the first few years of a child's life are marked by many sleepless nights. However, the expectation that infants should sleep through the night by a certain age is widespread ...