Sophia Johnson

Sophia Johnson

Sep 06, 2018

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Placentophagy research meeting

Welcome to UNLV: Today we had a meeting with Sharon Young and Daniel Benyshek from Anthropology Department of the University of Nevada. Besides discussing recent publications from their team we enjoyed sharing our passion for this field of research. Looking forward for some interesting exchange! Thank your for the invitation.

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Placentophagy is gaining in popularity as supporters of this behavior claim it has the ability to improve lactation, mood, recovery and engery level in childbirth. The placenta is often assumed to be sterile, but we now know that placentas have their own microbiome. This study aims to analyze the bacterial composition of processed placenta samples with attention on Group-B-Streptococci to understand potential bacterial infection associated with placentophagy.

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