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 ...

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 ...

Tonia Mosher, board member and Joyce Bess Cafe Certified Lactation Counselor, getting ready to ship the milk out. Blackwell Chapel Baby Cafe has recently received a donation of 461 ounces of breast ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Community sourcing of breast milk outside of accredited donor banks underscores the need for expanded access and more ...

‘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 ...

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) ...