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Breast milk can be tested at the Human Milk Institute in San Diego as a treatment for chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and breast cancer. Human milk has been shown to improve babies' brains, immune systems, and bones, over the years, but the lab's work will also investigate its effects on adults. The HMI's funding chief, Professor Lars Bode, said: Physicians and scientists at UC San Diego and elsewhere have been doing this research for a long time, but in their respective fields of research, it has been largely isolated.'