Scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center are preparing to take a closer look at the skin's ecosystem, known as the biome. By studying hundreds of babies and toddlers with eczema, they hope to find out why allergic disease progresses and persists in some people while not in others. Director of Asthma Research at Cincinnati Children's Gurjit Khurana Hershey, M.D. PhD, thinks there is something about the skin of some people which is abnormal, compromising the skin's barrier and