Human mammary glands contain sugars that avian influenza can latch onto to infect cells, researchers report August 8 at medRxiv.org. The finding, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, raises the ...

Mammary gland 'remembers' prior pregnancy, spurring milk production Date: May 7, 2015 Source: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summary: Anecdotal reports of nursing mothers have long suggested that ...

The mammary gland in previously pregnant mice (bottom row) produces milk earlier in a second pregnancy than in mice of the same age experiencing pregnancy for the first time (top row). For ...

The mammary gland is composed of epithelial, adipose and other stromal cells, which work in concert for the primary goal of producing milk during nursing. In the female mouse, five rudimentary ...

Mammary glands are the organs that, in the female mammal, produce milk for the sustenance of the young. These exocrine glands are enlarged and modified sweat glands and are the characteristic of ...

Having trouble producing milk might be written in some women's genes, scientists claim. Mutations in a specific protein called ZnT2 can stop mammary glands developing, they found (file photo) ...

Modern dairy cows are milk-producing powerhouses—some yielding more than 50 kg a day. But all that productivity comes at a price: their mammary glands often suffer from inflammation and cellular ...

BIOMILQ – a startup producing breastmilk by culturing human mammary cells - has raised $3.5m to meet the needs of the four fifths of women who transition to dairy-based formula before the ...

Maria Hillreiner, Nadine I. Müller, Heiner M. Koch, Christiane Schmautz, Bernhard Küster, Michael W. Pfaffl, Heike Kliem, Establishment of a 3D cell culture model of primary bovine mammary epithelial ...