A tightly controlled crossover trial shows that short-term food swaps can reshape the fats infants receive through milk, even when mothers feel no difference in appetite, metabolism, or feeding ...

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 ...

The New York Milk Bank issued a voluntary recall for a select amount of donor human milk on October 11 due to possible contamination with foreign objects.

From being the very first food a baby tastes to being the most nutritious food in the diet - milk has a reputation for being one of the most sought-after drinks. It is a highly nutritious liquid ...

An adult female seal and a young seal lay side by side in grass. Atlantic gray seal mothers (shown, left) feed their young on high-fat milk that is also rich in complex sugars to support their ...

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 ...