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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The plant-based milk trend has expanded in recent years, not only because of consumer concerns around environmental sustainability of dairy milks, but also because of evidence that milk alternatives ...