A new study found 332 types of complex sugar molecules in the seals' milk, some of which help protect young from harmful ...

An Australian biotech firm says it has successfully used precision fermentation to reproduce the most vital proteins in human ...

Seal pups may be nursing on what amounts to a biochemical powerhouse—and it could someday end up in baby formula. In a new ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...