The Hutterite children gave blood samples, and their parents filled out the same questionnaires. Researchers also visited 10 Hutterite homes to collect particles of dust.

As she drove in with a friend, who would introduce her to colony elders, Brody remembers Hutterite children enthusiastically running up to the car in wonderment, excited to meet the outsiders.

Hutterite children bounce on a trampoline, their long skirts floating against the open sky. The girl in the center seems to smile, suspended in mid-air.

He’s the father of four and considered a role model for Hutterite children. Hutterite women from the Hi-Line Colony located near Chester in northern Montana brave the brisk winds and frigid ...

Some of the most dramatic findings was reported in 2016 in The New England Journal of Medicine. In a study that compared 60 US Amish and Hutterite farm children — two groups with similar genetic ...

“What’s the difference between Hutterite children and those that aren’t Hutterites? Nothing really,” said Crystal Conrad, the middle-school teacher at Riverview Colony. “It’s so sad.

The Hutterites live on large communal farms with modern, industrialized machinery that limits daily contact with farm animals. The research suggested that closer contact with the animals and their ...

In particular, the researchers found that the Amish children in their study had more finely tuned so-called regulatory T cells than those from Hutterite backgrounds. These cells help to dampen ...

(Hutterite children between five and 15 eat separately from the adults in the communal dining rooms.) She was also in charge of sourcing materials and fabrics for sewing clothes on the colony, ...

In particular, the researchers found that the Amish children in their study had more finely tuned so-called regulatory T cells than those from Hutterite backgrounds. These cells help to dampen ...