Jamie Mahurin-Smith, Illinois State University (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Jamie Mahurin-Smith, Illinois State University

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"Long-chain fatty acids in human milk play an important role in the development of neural tissue," said Jamie Mahurin-Smith, who conducted the new study as a doctoral student at U. of I.

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