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) ...

BIOMILQ – a North Carolina-based startup culturing human mammary cells that lactate – says new tests show its milk is not bio-identical to breastmilk, but is significantly closer to it than any infant ...

The breast medicine money can buy? Some enterprising health nuts are touting an unorthodox method of building muscle and fighting cancer — by drinking human breast milk. And despite being a down-low ...

For babies who are breastfed, their first source of sustenance is filled with proteins, sugars, hormones, vitamins, and minerals — just the right amount of nutrients for an infant. That milk could ...

A type of sugar in human milk could help treat a common strain of Streptococcus bacteria, which can complicate pregnancies when it infects the vagina. Human milk remains understudied. “This is the ...