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Got Milk? How About Iron?

In research that may one day affect food crops, and Cornell University researchers in Ithaca, New York, are studying the mechanisms by which humans absorb iron from milk. "Although human milk is not high in iron content, there appear to be some compounds in it that promote iron uptake," says animal physiologist Ray Glahn, of ARS's U.S. Plant, Soil, and Nutrition Research Laboratory. "By identifying these compounds and understanding how
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