Farm air may prevent asthma in children

ENN
Sep 8, 2015, 9:38 am19 pts
For researchers trying to untangle the roots of the current epidemic of asthma, one observation is especially intriguing: Children who grow up on dairy farms are much less likely than the average child to develop the respiratory disease. Now, a European team studying mice has homed in on a possible explanation:…

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