Milk protein comparison unveils nutritional gems for developing babies

Human babies appear to need more of a nutritional boost from breast-milk proteins than do infants of one of their closest primate relatives, suggests a study comparing human milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monkeys.

Human breast milk contains extra nutritional elements compared to that of rhesus macaque monkeys, UC Davis and Harvard researchers find. This may be because human infants have further to go in development after birth than our close relatives.