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) ...

Scientists are discovering the extraordinary power of human milk and the benefits it brings to infants, but there are also some hidden contaminants that can lurk in breast and formula milks.

The idea first came to co-founder and chief science officer Leila Strickland in 2013, after she heard about the world’s first lab-grown burger. A cell biologist by training, Strickland wondered if ...

Rio de Janeiro — Five days after the early delivery of her baby last month at a municipal hospital, Talita Alves Araújo Lourenço sat in a chair while a nurse helped her express breast milk into a ...

A SERVICE that helps premature and seriously-ill babies has appealed for more breast milk donors. The human milk bank at the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen is the only one in Ireland.

Pure Mammary Factors is leveraging cellular agriculture to ‘humanize’ the infant nutrition sector. FoodNavigator hears how. Breastfeeding has long been promoted as the most effective way to ensure ...

This week, BIOMILQ announced that they have successfully made the world’s first cell-cultured human milk from mammary cells outside of the breast. In under a year, the team has catapulted the human ...