Research
This, from the latest Midwifery Today ENews

Scientists in Russia and Belarus are adding lactoferrin, a protein in human
milk, to goat milk through genetic modification. The intent is to enable
mothers who cannot breastfeed their children to give them milk that is
almost as good.

Ninety doe kids from genetically modified bucks are being raised on a farm
outside of Moscow in the hope they will produce milk with the same—or
higher—amount of lactoferrin [that] is found naturally in human breast milk.

Similar projects are being carried out in the Netherlands and China. Dutch
scientists have created a transgenic cow producing the protein, but in small
quantities. Goats were chosen over cows for the Russian-Belarusian study
because they produce more milk in proportion to their weight and are less
dependent than cows on external factors such as temperature.

— Daily Telegraph, 2009

-- 
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral therapy practitioner
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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