Milk & Microbes: How Babies Get Buddies

A few weeks ago, Zac Lewis and I were writing an essay "Mother's Littlest Helpers." To organize my thinking, I made a flow chart conceptual model of the microbial colonization of the newborn's gut. 
After elaborating the model and developing powerpoint drawing skills (angry eyebrows!)... 


TA DA- the 1st Mammals Suck comic!



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