BLACKSBURG, Va., Feb. 7 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Human breast milk doesn't just nourish an infant with essential nutrients, growth factors, and antibodies - it's also teeming with microorganisms.
Scientists like Michelle "Shelley" McGuire are learning more about how different populations of bacteria, viruses, archaea, and fungi in breast milk influence maternal and infant health.
"We now know that human milk has an inherent microbiome, which varies globally and varies amongst women," McGuire said in a 2021 lecture presented at BINC-Geneva, or the Biostime Institute for Nutrition and Care. McGuire is a professor and director of the Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consu...