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Metabolic Engineer Synthesizes Key Breast Milk Ingredient: Sugar in Human Milk May Protect Babies from Pathogens
September 10, 2012 — A microbial engineer has synthesized a sugar in human milk that is thought to protect babies from pathogens. That's important because 2FL, the shorthand scientists use to describe this human milk ... > full story -
Breast Milk Promotes a Different Gut Flora Growth Than Infant Formulas
August 27, 2012 — The benefits of breast milk have long been appreciated, but now scientists have described a unique property that makes mother's milk better than infant formula in protecting infants from infections ... > full story -
What’s Best for Very Low Birth Weight Babies
August 16, 2012 — While the health benefits of breast feeding baby are well known, a new study finds that, for very low birth weight (VLBW) babies, a small amount of fortification can improve growth rates without ... > full story -
Breastfeeding May Protect Infants from HIV Transmission
August 15, 2012 — An international team of researchers has found that certain bioactive components found in human milk are associated with a reduced risk of HIV transmission from an HIV infected mother to her ... > full story -
Protective Bacteria in the Infant Gut Have Resourceful Way of Helping Babies Break Down Breast Milk
August 13, 2012 — Scientists have found that important and resourceful bacteria in the baby microbiome can ferret out nourishment from a previously unknown source, possibly helping at-risk infants break down ... > full story -
Breast Milk Kills HIV and Blocks Its Oral Transmission in Humanized Mouse
June 14, 2012 — Although breastfeeding is attributed to a significant number of HIV infections in infants, most breastfed babies are not infected with HIV, despite prolonged and repeated exposure. HIV researchers ... > full story -
Anthropologists Finds High Levels of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Breast Milk of Amerindian Women
June 9, 2012 — Anthropologists have found high levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids in the breast milk of economically impoverished Amerindian woman as compared to women in the United ... > full story -
Hazelnuts: New Source of Key Fat for Infant Formula That's More Like Mother's Milk
May 23, 2012 — Scientists are reporting development of a healthy "designer fat" that, when added to infant formula, provides a key nutrient that premature babies need in high quantities, but isn't available in ... > full story -
Newly Discovered Breast Milk Antibodies Help Neutralize HIV
May 22, 2012 — Antibodies that help to stop the HIV virus have been found in breast milk. Researchers have isolated the antibodies from immune cells called B cells in the breast milk of infected mothers in Malawi, ... > full story -
Breastfeeding Benefits: Human Breast Milk Ingredient Adjusts to Optimize for Beneficial Gut Bacteria Over Time
May 14, 2012 — A new study shows that human milk oligosaccharides, or HMO, produce short-chain fatty acids that feed a beneficial microbial population in the infant gut. Not only that, the bacterial composition ... > full story
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