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) ...

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 ...

Worldwide, a majority of babies — approximately 75 percent — drink infant formula in their first six months of life, either as a sole source of nutrition or as a supplement to breastfeeding. But while ...

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 ...

National data tells us how many healthy, full-term babies are exclusively breastfed when they leave hospitals, but for those ...

In a new study, scientists reprogrammed Nicotiana benthamiana plants to produce a diverse array of beneficial sugars that are found in breast milk, called human milk oligosaccharides. Worldwide, a ...