Take part in the PEARL-AGE Study

Scientists on the Norwich Research Park are looking to recruit family members, and their microbiomes, to a study into how we share microbes between us.

The PEARL-AGE Study at the Quadram Institute and Earlham Institute is looking for families with as many members as possible to take part, to understand which microbes can be shared among family members and how these might affect health.

Each of us houses a community of trillions of microbes in our gut, called the gut microbiome. Our microbiome is crucial to health from the very earliest stages of life. Beneficial microbes keep us healthy by helping to digest food, fighting off infections, and programming our immune system.

We’re colonised by microbes as soon as we’re born, so usually our microbiome initially comes from our mother, close family and the home environment. Anything that affects successful microbiome establishment can have knock-on effects on health in later life.

The PEARL-AGE Study will look at the similarities and differences in the microbiomes of family members.

Find out more and how you can take part : https://quadram.ac.uk/pearl-agestudy/

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