A team of scientists from the University of Western Australia proposed a new source of stem cells. In 2011, researchers discovered that in addition to proteins, carbohydrates and vitamins, breast milk contains stem cells..
When they grew these cells, they differentiated into the three main groups of cells that make up the entire human body..
Since the lead author of the study, Dr.
Foteni Hassiotou, conducted her first experiment on breast milk, she has worked with many more samples of it.. More than 70 healthy breastfeeding mothers with whom scientists have worked turned out to be carriers of breast milk with stem cells. The grown samples were able to transform not only into cells of the heart, brain and pancreas, but also into cells of bone tissue..
It turned out that all breast milk samples from healthy women contained about 30% of the total stem cells, Vesti reports..
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