Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

The Mammal With the Most Complex Milk Might Not Be Humans, After All. The Atlantic Gray Seal Could Take That Title

A new study found 332 types of complex sugar molecules in the seals' milk, some of which help protect young from harmful ...

Woolworths-backed biotech All G raises $10m to create ‘bio-identical’ human breast milk

An Australian biotech firm says it has successfully used precision fermentation to reproduce the most vital proteins in human ...
Philadelphia Mag

Got Milk? How Pasteurized Donor Human Milk Helps Babies Thrive

Shortly after giving birth at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Meredith Alley found herself visiting her son, Graham, in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). He had arrived earlier than ...
standardmedia.co.ke

How donated human milk changes infants' lives

Breast milk in containers after harvesting from mothers at Pumwani Maternity Hospital. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard] The newborn unit at Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Nairobi is bustling, though the ...
Los Angeles Times

Human milk is essential, yet scientists know little about it. UCSD plans to change that

It is one of the few foods that nearly everyone on the planet has consumed at some point. It’s linked to a host of health benefits, from reducing the risk of asthma and Type 1 diabetes to fighting off ...
STAT

Why researchers think human milk could repair the gut microbiome and reduce infections

For babies who are breastfed, their first source of sustenance is filled with proteins, sugars, hormones, vitamins, and minerals — just the right amount of nutrients for an infant. That milk could ...