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Letter: An udder kind of milk

Published 16 July 2014

From The editor replies

Because his milk does not contain antibodies, Pandya says it would not be suitable as replacement breast milk for infants. A version could be created for adults if there was a demand for it, although he admits that would be “kind of weird”.

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Issue no. 2978 published 19 July 2014

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