Greetings All, New study from lead researcher Ameae Walker, a professor of biomedical sciences at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine, on how babies make copies of maternal immune cells obtained via maternal milk in a process researchers have termed "maternal educational immunity": The ScienceDaily news release: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161007085631.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fhealth_medicine%2Fbreastfeeding+%28Breastfeeding+News+--+ScienceDaily%29 The citation: M. K. Ghosh, V. Nguyen, H. K. Muller, A. M. Walker. Maternal Milk T Cells Drive Development of Transgenerational Th1 Immunity in Offspring Thymus. The Journal of Immunology, 2016; 197 (6): 2290 DOI: 10.4049/%u200Bjimmunol.1502483 Full text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5009876/pdf/1502483.pdf With best regards, Debra Swank, RN BSN IBCLC Ocala, Florida USA More Than Reflexes Education http://www.MoreThanReflexes.org http://www.MoreThanReflexes.org/on-learning/ *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html To reach list owners: [log in to unmask] Mail all list management commands to: [log in to unmask] COMMANDS: 1. To temporarily stop your subscription write in the body of an email: set lactnet nomail 2. To start it again: set lactnet mail 3. To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet 4. To get a comprehensive list of rules and directions: get lactnet welcome