Dr Kathleen Acaro’s UMass Amherst team, in collaboration with Dr Heidi Leftwich’s group at UMass Medical School Amherst has done a study of Antibodies and Cytokines in the colostrum (initial breast milk) of new Moms. We continue to recruit women who are lactating and have COVID-19 but are also working with women, mainly medical staff, …
Immune response in breastmilk to COVID 19 and SARS-CoV-2 immunization Read More »
I hope you are staying well during these difficult times. Our lab has stayed open during the first five months of the pandemic (March through July), but our work slowed greatly. It will be a while before we are functioning at our pre-COVID level. We are responding to the pandemic by assessing the immune …
Gene Methylation and Breast Cancer Risk assessment using Breast Milk Read More »
We have been asked questions about safe breastfeeding and COVID-19. We are Researchers, not physicians so we don’t give medical advice but we can provide commentary that may help in understanding the background to current guidelines. The basic message seems to be that there isn’t much known about transmission that is specific to Moms …
Transmission of COVID-19 to babies: Breastfeeding by women with Coronavirus Read More »
Hi, this is a first newsletter posting for our BRCA project, one of my two funded projects. You can see a summary of the project, funded by the Breast Cancer Research Program, as a page on my website. The essential concept is that methylation changes and somatic mutation accumulation may be detectable in breastmilk cells …