Meet some of the people featured in the June 2020 issue of The Scientist.

The gut microbiome is more malleable in the first two years after birth, allowing probiotics to make their mark. Can we exploit this to improve infants’ health?

The microbial makeup of a newborn baby’s intestines has changed dramatically over the past 100 years, and we are now beginning to understand how and why this matters.

Infants may have been drinking animal milk from vessels for thousands of years.

An artificially intelligent program tracks the motion of infants to help doctors look for links to disorders with abnormal motions.

Results from an observational study find that the introduction of a routine vaccine in Australia coincided with a fall in the incidence of the autoimmune condition.

By stimulating specific neurons in mouse brains, researchers demonstrate that memories from infancy are not lost, but merely difficult to access.

The results suggest the virus could severely alter brain development in infants infected after birth, but blocking a signaling protein early on might ease certain symptoms.

Alterations to a protein involved in breathing may help explain some cases of sudden infant death syndrome, a study finds.