By Travis Cleven
Feb 25, 2021 4:54 AM
Denise Ney is a Professor at UW-Madison in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and sheâs kept very busy while being there. For the past 15 years, sheâs been studying a protein found in sweet cheese whey called Glycomacropeptide (GMP). Going back to the beginning, Ney was invited to do research on GMP by some dietitians and physicians at the Waisman Center in Madison. They wanted her to help them bring to life the idea of making GMP a dietary supplement for people with a rare genetic disease called Phenylketonuria (PKU).
First of all, PKU is a genetically inherited disease thatâs transferred to the baby if both parents carry one gene for the disease. Even though the parents carry the disease, they donât have it themselves. The other tricky part is that you arenât able to tell if the baby has it unless they get tested at birth, which the U.S. has been doing for a while now. Ney said that in Wisconsin we have f
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