In 2022, the nation’s largest infant formula manufacturer sent new parents scrambling when it launched a product recall that sparked shortages nationwide. UC Davis researchers contributed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report that identifies the causes of the shortages and detailed recommendations for securing national supplies.

In a new study published June 13 in Nature Food, UC researchers reprogrammed plants’ sugar-making machinery to produce a diverse array of these human milk sugars, also called human milk oligosaccharides.