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) ...

A type of sugar in human milk could help treat a common strain of Streptococcus bacteria, which can complicate pregnancies when it infects the vagina. Human milk remains understudied. “This is the ...

The idea first came to co-founder and chief science officer Leila Strickland in 2013, after she heard about the world’s first lab-grown burger. A cell biologist by training, Strickland wondered if ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Spring brought news of goats engineered to lactate the building blocks of a malaria vaccine. Now Co.Exist reports on transgenic goats that produce milk with breast milk enzymes and proteins.

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 ...

This week, BIOMILQ announced that they have successfully made the world’s first cell-cultured human milk from mammary cells outside of the breast. In under a year, the team has catapulted the human ...