Providing human breast milk to preterm infants is a strategy for preventing complications including necrotizing enterocolitis. Because a mother's own milk (considered the gold standard) is not always available, it is important ...
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Babies and children need vitamins, including vitamin B-12, to help their brains and bodies develop and grow. Babies get B-12 from their mothers and can have low levels of B-12 if their mothers had low vitamin levels during ...
Dec 1, 2023
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The volume of breast milk produced may be determined by genetics, according to biomedical and nutritional sciences Professor Shannon Kelleher of the UMass Lowell Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences.
Nov 14, 2023
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The 3D human breast organoid model represents state-of-the-art technology that "floats" patient-derived or stem cell-derived human breast tissue in a gel-like substance known as the matrix. The model improves the reproduction ...
Nov 7, 2023
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Milk production in mammals is a crucial process for the organism, perfected along the course of evolution. It is regulated by sophisticated molecular mechanisms still under investigation. A new study published in Nature Communications ...
Oct 11, 2023
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With a wide variety of dairy and nondairy milks on the market, consumers have endless options when it comes to choosing milk to quench their thirst, make their morning coffee smooth and velvety or enhance their cereal and ...
Oct 5, 2023
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New research presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Hamburg, Germany (2–6 Oct) has linked infant formula and the early introduction of fizzy drinks with higher levels ...
Oct 1, 2023
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Hearing the sound of a newborn's wail can trigger the release of oxytocin, a brain chemical that controls breast-milk release in mothers, a new study in rodents shows. Researchers found that once prompted, this flood of hormones ...
Sep 20, 2023
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Researchers at VHIO, led by Dr. Cristina Saura, head of the VHIO Breast Cancer Group and the Breast Unit at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, and Dr. Ana Vivancos, head of VHIO's Genomics laboratory, has shown for the first ...
Sep 14, 2023
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More than 320 million years of mammalian evolution has adapted breast milk to meet all the physiological needs of babies: It contains not only nutrients, but also hormones, antimicrobials, digestive enzymes, and growth factors. ...
Sep 13, 2023
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