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The team is now studying how women\u2019s microbial communities change during pregnancy and to identify women at risk of preterm birth and develop ways to prevent it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/bacteria-found-in-healthy-placentas-1.15274\">Nature<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>doi:10.1038\/nature.2014.15274<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_tags":[],"series":[],"subject":[2970,2969,2968],"class_list":["post-18230","research","type-research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-and-nursing","subject-health","subject-medicine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Healthy placentas harbor bacteria | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Researchers\u00a0at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, found that placenta, which was thought to be sterile, harbors bacteria. 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