Could gut microbes be key to solving food allergies?

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As a child, Cathryn Nagler broke out in hives when she ate eggs. She reacted to penicillin. Working in labs after college, she developed a severe allergy to mice that caused wheezing, swelling and trouble breathing — twice landing her in the emergency room. Today, Nagler is an immunologist the University of Chicago and is helping to pioneer an emerging research field: studying how bacteria in the gut can be harnessed to help people with food allergies. It wasn’t personal experience with allergies that inspired her interest. Rather, it was an odd observation she made as a doctoral student in …read more

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