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 ...

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 ...

What makes human milk oligosaccharides unique are the specific set of linkages, or rules, for connecting simple sugars together that are found in these molecules. To convince plants to make human milk ...

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 ...

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 ...