Breast milk is the perfect nutrition for infants, a result of millions of years of evolution, finely
attuning it to the requirements of the infant. Breast milk contains many complex proteins …

Untargeted metabolomics, as a global approach, has already proven its great potential and
capabilities for the investigation of health and disease, as well as the wide applicability for …

The assembly of the newborn's gut microbiota during the first months of life is an
orchestrated process resulting in specialized microbial ecosystems in the different gut …

Early nutrition has an enormous influence on a child's physiological function, immune
system maturation, and cognitive development. Human breast milk (HBM) is recognized as …

There is conflicting evidence on the protective role of breastfeeding in relation to the
development of allergic sensitisation and allergic disease. Studies vary in methodology and …

This tutorial provides a comprehensive description of the GC-MS-based untargeted
metabolomics workflow including: ethical approval requirement, sample collection and …

Analyte or sample extraction is the most basic, yet a very important and dominant, feature of
any sample preparation technique which in general can also include other processes such …

We are in the midst of a shift in biological research paradigms from reductionist
methodologies that generate a hypothesis and rigorously and quantitatively measure the …

Human Milk (HM) is the best source for newborn nutrition until at least six months; it exerts
anti-inflammatory and anti-infective functions, promotes immune system formation and …

In recent years, high-throughput lipid profiling has contributed to understand the biological,
physiological and pathological roles of lipids in living organisms. Across all kingdoms of life …