New MILC Research Examines Human Milk Composition and Infant Neurodevelopment

A new paper published in Frontiers in Nutrition explores how components of human milk — specifically fatty acids and human milk oligosaccharides — relate to infants’ cognitive, language, and motor outcomes at ages 1 and 2 years. Led by former MILC PhD student Dr. Sarah Turner, along with MILC Director Dr. Meghan Azad, and collaborators across Canada and the US, the team examined breastmilk samples from 240 mother–infant pairs in the CHILD cohort from the Edmonton site