Hi, netters! If someone with a talent for literature search could nail down the exact reference for the following report that appeared in the Jerusalem Post on September 3, 1995 (on WWW: http://www.jpost.co.il for those internet geniuses out there), I would be grateful: Mother's milk vs. cancer cells A component in human milk may fight cancer, but so far the effects have been tested only in the test tube, and not even in live animal studies. Called monomeric a-lactalbumin (MAL), the substance caused cancer cells to die. Researchers at Sweden's Lund University and Karolinska Institute were studying the effects of human milk on bacteria associated with lung cancer. Not only did it kill the bacteria, but it also killed the lung cancer cells, according to a report published by the US National Academy of Sciences. The active agent was narrowed down to MAL, which was found to trigger apoptosis (cell suicide) of the cancer cells but not of normal cells. The milk compound also induced apoptosis in experimental cell lines of kidney, bladder and intestinal cancer. The Swedish researchers said they will continue their work to see if it leads to processes causing tumor cells to kill themselves. Well, isn't that interesting? Or has everybody except me known about this for years (as usual)? When someone finds the reference, please post it for everybody if I really have discovered a new piece of research, but if it is old hat, post me privately. TIA, Judy K in Israel