Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are a uniquely abundant group of structurally complex sugars present in human milk that play a central role in shaping neonatal health. Recent studies have ...

LONDON, United Kingdom, October 28, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- A 2016 series published in The Lancet revealed that consistent breastfeeding worldwide could prevent approximately 800,000 child deaths each ...

FOR MORE than 100 years scientists and companies have tried to create an artificial version of breast milk. Success has been limited. Early efforts, full of sugar or cheap corn syrup, fell woefully ...

In this large, diverse sample of first-time mothers in the U.S., 1 in 27 participants reported feeding their infants shared human milk. Prior work indicates that families engage in many, but not all, ...

Not long ago, I suited up in a white coat and safety goggles and entered a quiet laboratory where an experiment at the frontiers of science and parenthood was under way. A young engineer with a tidy ...

It’s important for pediatric providers to maintain open, nonjudgmental communication around infant feeding," Jill R. Demirci told Newsweek.

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 ...

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 ...

‘Milk is more unique than a fingerprint,’ says Katie Hinde, an associate professor at Arizona State University who studies lactation.Illustration: The Metropolitan Mueseum of New york People have used ...

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 ...

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) ...