/ Babies Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en /news/protein-trapped-sugar-compounds-nourish-infant-gut-microbes <p>51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis researchers have shown that it is the sugar part of a sugar-protein compound found in both human and cow’s milk that feeds the health-promoting microbes in babies’ intestines.</p> April 15, 2016 - 10:47am Patricia Bailey /news/protein-trapped-sugar-compounds-nourish-infant-gut-microbes /news/uc-davis-experts-zika-virus-1 <p>Zika virus, first identified in monkeys in 1947 and in humans in 1952, has become a major health concern since 2015, when health officials in Brazil began to notice that an outbreak of the virus coincided with a significant increase in newborn babies with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads.&nbsp;Zika virus was previously known only to cause relatively mild symptoms, including fever and rash, in infected people.&nbsp;The virus is transmitted to people by the Aedes group of mosquitoes and is known to be present in Africa, South America, Central America and the Western Pacific.</p> January 29, 2016 - 2:31pm Patricia Bailey /news/uc-davis-experts-zika-virus-1 /news/milk-protein-comparison-unveils-nutritional-gems-developing-babies <p>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.</p> <p>The research team, led by the University of California, Davis, came to this conclusion after developing a new technique for comparing the proteome — all detectable proteins — of human milk with the proteome of the rhesus macaque monkey.</p> March 16, 2015 - 10:15am IET WebDev /news/milk-protein-comparison-unveils-nutritional-gems-developing-babies