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This is a scientific question: can breast milk be geneticly produced using biotechnology and molecular biology?
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No: There are products of living systems in breast milk like immunoglobulin a that can not be replicated synthetically.The easy absorption of various nutrients in breast milk has also never been replicated in more than 3 decades of breast milk research.
Answered 11/14/2012
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