-: We're at halftime at the Target Center.
As always, we're very happy
when University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chancellor Ronnie Green can join us.
It's March,
and we're playing tournament basketball.
This is about as good as it gets
for college basketball fans, isn't it?
-: It sure is,
and Jane and I are really happy to be here
and be at the Target Center today
for this big game and matchup,
and we're gonna be able to see
some great basketball,
great competition in the conference
and great to be here cheering on the Huskers,
and hoping that we advance to the next round.
-: And I understand the University is
doing some exciting things,
research that could someday lead
to even better infant formula.
What can you tell us about that?
-: Well, you know, we have become,
over the last period of years,
a real leader internationally here
at the University of Nebraska
in gut microbiome work.
So if you think about every one of us
is a walking microbiome,
and one of the most complex parts
of our microbiome are all the organisms
that make up our digestive tract,
or populate our digestive tract.
So we've become a real global leader
in this area.
It has big implications on food digestion,
on human health and our help in this area,
our leadership in the gut microbiome area,
has helped lead to a federal research grant
here recently to study what Nebraska scientists
hypothesize might be a key differentiator
in milk that is currently not
in infant formula, right?
So a component of breast milk,
which we understand is healthier for infants,
that is identified now,
or possibly to be identified,
through this kind of work.
So that ultimately down the road
research in this field could lead
to the development of new infant formulas
that contain these fortified specific
nutritional enhancements.
This particular research is being led
by Professor Janos Zempleni,
who is a professor of Molecular Nutrition in our
Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences
and our College of Education and Human Sciences
at U.N.L.
It's just the latest project
in Janos's lab that pursues wide-ranging
nutrition science research involving milk
and involving the microbiome and human health.
He recently, in his lab,
another notable project that they have had,
has done research into milk as
a potential vehicle that delivers
cancer-fighting exosomes, they're called,
directly to the brain,
now is considered a kind of
leading international work in this area.
So great work going on
in Doctor Zempleni's lab in this particular area
now in fortifying of infant milk.
-: I just am always amazed
at all the great stuff going on at U.N.L.
Chancellor Ronnie Green, thank you very much,
we appreciate you.
-: Go Big Red, beat the Spartans.
-: All right (laughing).
We're at halftime at the Target Center.
More halftime comes your way in a few moments.
This is Big Red basketball.