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Protein-Trapped Sugar Compounds Nourish Infant Gut Microbes

Patricia Bailey — April 15, 2016 - 10:47am

�°��ϲ��Ļ��Ϣ Davis researchers have shown that it is the sugar part of a sugar-protein compound found in both human and cow’s milk that feeds the health-promoting microbes in babies’ intestines.

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Patricia Bailey — January 29, 2016 - 2:31pm

Zika virus, first identified in monkeys in 1947 and in humans in 1952, has become a major health concern since 2015, when health officials in Brazil began to notice that an outbreak of the virus coincided with a significant increase in newborn babies with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads. Zika virus was previously known only to cause relatively mild symptoms, including fever and rash, in infected people. The virus is transmitted to people by the Aedes group of mosquitoes and is known to be present in Africa, South America, Central America and the Western Pacific.

Milk protein comparison unveils nutritional gems for developing babies

IET WebDev — March 16, 2015 - 10:15am

Human babies appear to need more of a nutritional boost from breast-milk proteins than do infants of one of their closest primate relatives, suggests a study comparing human milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monkeys.

The research team, led by the University of California, Davis, came to this conclusion after developing a new technique for comparing the proteome — all detectable proteins — of human milk with the proteome of the rhesus macaque monkey.

Babies Content

Protein-Trapped Sugar Compounds Nourish Infant Gut Microbes

�°������ϲ���Ļ��Ϣ Davis Experts on Zika Virus

Milk protein comparison unveils nutritional gems for developing babies

�°��ϲ��Ļ��Ϣ Davis Experts on Zika Virus