Milk Therapy

Breast-milk compounds could be a tonic for adult ills
Julie J. Rehmeyer


"Catharina Svanborg thought that she already knew how remarkable breast milk
is. The immunologist had logged hundreds of lab hours documenting ways in
which human milk helps babies fight infections. But when the group decided
to use cancerous lung cells to avoid the variability shown by normal cells
in laboratory tests, Svanborg and her team at Lund University in Sweden were
in for a surprise. They applied breast milk to the cancerous lung cells, and
all the cells died. Breast milk killed cancer cells.


GOAT GOODS. A transgenic goat named Artemis produces in her milk a
human-breast­milk compound called lysozyme. Lysozyme destroys bacteria by
drilling through their cell walls.
E. Scharfen"

The article:
Shortcut to: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061209/bob8.asp




 

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