Human milk is a complex and unique fluid tissue that provides nourishment to neonates. The complicated nature of human breast milk differentiates it from all other mammalian milk and there is much ...

Steve Townsend’s daughter was only one day old when she rebuffed a nurse’s bottle of baby formula. Townsend’s wife, unable to nurse because her daughter was in the intensive care unit for some extra ...

CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prolacta Bioscience announces a new line of “ready to feed” premature infant formula products for preemies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The ...

Researchers have programmed the Nicotiana benthamiana plant, a close relative of tobacco, to produce prebiotic sugars found in human breast milk. Charles Andres via wikimedia commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) ...

Scientists have introduced human genes into 300 dairy cows to produce milk with the same properties as human breast milk, The Telegraph reports. The scientists behind the research have modified cow ...

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 ...

Elizabeth Kimani-Murage works for the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC). She is also a Fellow of the Wellcome Trust. This work has been funded by DFID through the County Investment ...