Milk, as the sole source of nutrition for the newborn mammal, provides the necessary
nutrients and energy for offspring growth and development. It also contains a vast number of …

Human milk contains all of the essential nutrients required by the infant within a complex
matrix that enhances the bioavailability of many of those nutrients. In addition, human milk is …

Decades of research have established that breastfeeding has multiple benefits for maternal
and infant health, yet much remains to be elucidated about the underlying biological …

We discuss the evolution and composition of breast milk and briefly describe how
mammalian evolution resulted in lactation, which played a crucial role in infant growth and …

Human milk is a biofluid with a unique composition among mammalian milks. Besides this
milk's major components, its bioactive compounds, like hormones, immune factors, and …

Human milk is universally recognized as the preferred food for infants during the first 6 mo of
life because it provides not only essential and conditionally essential nutrients in necessary …

Among mammals, numerous bioactive factors in milk vary across mothers and influence
offspring outcomes. This emerging area of research has primarily investigated such …

Human milk is a complex and variable fluid of increasing interest to human biologists who
study nutrition and health. The collection and analysis of human milk poses many practical …

Analysis in individual mouse milk samples is restricted by small sample volumes and
hindered by high fat contents. Miniaturized methods were developed for the analysis of dry …

This paper resulted from a conference entitled “Lactation and Milk: Defining and refining the
critical questions” held at the University of Colorado School of Medicine from January 18 …