Could cow milk be the new cure for diabetes? Researchers have genetically modified a brown cow in Brazil to produce human insulin in its milk, which marks a breakthrough in diabetes treatment research ...

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 ...

Shortly after giving birth at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Meredith Alley found herself visiting her son, Graham, in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). He had arrived earlier than ...

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) ...