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 ...

A new wave of biotech innovation is pushing infant formula beyond basic nutrition toward replicating the biological functions ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human babies need nurturing from the time they are born until they are able to fend for themselves. For the first six months of life the best food for the baby is mother’s milk. Many infant formula ...