‘Milk is more unique than a fingerprint,’ says Katie Hinde, an associate professor at Arizona State University who studies lactation.Illustration: The Metropolitan Mueseum of New york People have used ...

Most conversations about breast milk tend to focus on topics like nutrients, antibodies and bonding time rather than bacteria ...

Human breast tissue may be capable of hosting — and passing on — bird flu. Human mammary glands contain sugars that avian influenza can latch onto to infect cells, researchers report August 8 at ...

Breast milk is universal — always has been. Whether it’s a poor woman in Africa breastfeeding her baby or a busy career woman in New York City expressing her milk with a pump so she can feed her baby ...

Taking advantage of her background in genomics, Johnson set out to acquire a bigger picture of how CMV activation affected breast milk composition. “Historically, most studies of human milk have ...

Research Assistant Professor of Developmental, Molecular and Chemical Biology, Tufts University All mammals have mammary glands that produce milk, a feature that has fascinated scientists for many ...

In a recent Instagram story, Kourtney Kardashian Barker, who welcomed her first child with husband Travis Barker in November, said she “pounded a glass of breast milk” because she felt sick. Although ...