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Are we too clean for our own good?

June 25, 2019

Mounting research suggests our quest to be clean might make children sicker, not healthier.

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OMRF opens state’s first germ-free mouse research facility

October 13, 2017

The center offers researchers the ability to raise and study mice in an environment free of germs and microbes.

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OMRF welcomes two new scientists

August 30, 2013

Drs. David Jones and Umesh Deshmukh bring new research to the foundation.

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Deshmukh, Umesh

Coming Clean

With OMRF’s new germ-free facility, researchers can study the role of microbes in human health We are outnumbered. For every human cell in our bodies, 10 others belonging to microorganisms reside in our mouths, on our skin and in our digestive tracts. To study the role these hordes of tiny hitchhikers—which we commonly think of […]

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