We all know mother’s milk is best (I got my ex to nurse by doing all the fetching, carrying and changing – it was well worth it), but we can’t all expend the time and/or energy to do so. Better animal milk and formula derived from it may provide an answer.

Human breast milk contains valuable antibacterial enzymes that milk from dairy animals did not–until now. Researchers report that transgenic goats can successfully produce milk containing the enzyme Lysozyme, and that this milk exhibits an antibacterial effect when fed to young goats and pigs.

The researchers hope that in the future, enhanced nonhuman milk will give an immune boost to children in the developing world where diarrhea takes more than two million lives each year.

Let’s just hope that the anti-genetic research crowd doesn’t stifle this.