Kourtney Kardashian Barker says she “pounds breast milk” to stop herself feeling sick – but are there really any proven health benefits for adult consumption of human milk?
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Identifying proteins that are only present in bodily fluids when a patient has breast cancer could provide a way to screen healthy people for the disease.
Using ‘cellular agriculture’, scientists want to produce genuine human breastmilk as an alternative to infant formula.
Can existing laws help if something goes wrong?
Breast milk contains ingredients in concentrations that change over the course of the day. Researchers think milk is chrononutrition, carrying molecular messages to help set a baby’s internal clock.
If breast milk was made in factories, we’d count it in the GDP.
It’s time to normalise it.
A chemist explains how some molecules in human breast milk help fight infection. Understanding their properties could lead to better infant formulas that share the health advantages of breastfeeding.
Why was one gene mutation that affects hair, teeth, sweat glands and breasts ubiquitous among ice age Arctic people? New research points to the advantage it provided for ancestors of Native Americans.
Hospitals sometimes recommend women express milk towards the end of their pregnancies. But it’s not suitable for all.
Banked breast milk is a safe source of shared human milk, and can be a life-saver for very premature babies.
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Professor of Midwifery and Maternity Services Research, La Trobe University
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University
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Professor in Breastfeeding Research, La Trobe University
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer and SAHMRI Fellow, Flinders University
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Trial Co-ordinator, La Trobe University
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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow and Head of Neonatal Nutrition Research Unit SAHMRI, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Research Professor, National Research Center on Human Evolution (CENIEH), Spain, and in the United States, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
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Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Clarkson University
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Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant lecturer in Tort Law, University College Cork
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PhD Graduate Researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences