Human milk is essential, yet scientists know little about it. UCSD plans to change that
LA TimesIt is one of the few foods that nearly everyone on the planet has consumed at some point. “There’s so much milk coming through here, we can really drive research,” said Dr. Lisa Stellwagen, who runs the UC Health Milk Bank. At UCSD, the new institute’s three main components are Bode’s lab, the Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence; the UC Health Milk Bank, which distributed 200,000 ounces of donated breast milk last year; and the Human Milk Research Biorepository, which holds more than 50,000 samples of donated human milk for use in scientific research. “There’s so much milk coming through here, we can really drive research,” said Dr. Lisa Stellwagen, a pediatrician and co-director of the institute who runs the milk bank. Being able to understand immediately how a pathogen affects the food supply for babies is essential, she said, adding that, in a crisis, “you can’t shut down breastfeeding.” Dr. Lisa Stillwagen, a co-director of the Human Milk Institute, walks through the milk bank.
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