BIOMILQ is bridging the gap between infant formula and breast milk by producing high-value ingredients from human mammary epithelial cells. It was while on maternity leave that cell biologist Leila ...

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 ...

Over 200 different carbohydrates in human milk help form a composition of nutrients suited for the express purpose of feeding a growing child. Yet roughly 75% of infants around the world don’t get ...

New research may help close the nutrition gap between infant formula and human breast milk. The study shows how plants can be programmed to produce a diverse array of beneficial sugars found in human ...

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) ...

The global human milk bank market size was valued at US$ 422.7 Mn in 2024 and is projected to reach US$ 843.1 Mn by 2035, ...

In a recent study published in the Biotechnology Journal, a team of researchers from Brazil constructed a lentivirus vector with expression specific for mammary glands and carrying the gene for human ...

Breast milk produced by men who transitioned to women is as good for babies as milk from a genetic female, according to British health officials — sparking outrage from critics questioning the science ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...