Washington (ANI): A new study has looked into insulin’s role in lactation success among mothers have difficulty in making enough milk to breastfeed their babies. The study is the first to describe how the human mammary gland becomes highly sensitive to insulin during lactation. It is also the first study to get an accurate picture of how specific genes are switched on in the human mammary gland during lactation. The researchers used next generation sequencing technology RNA sequencing to reveal ‘in exquisite detail’ the blueprint for making milk in the human mammary gland according to Laurie Nommsen-Rivers PhD a scientist
