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The article I read is called “Got Milk? Roach milk could be a new superfood” by Dinsa Sachan. The article is mainly about how scientists have studied a specific type of cockroach, the Pacific beetle cockroach, and have discovered that it could contain a type of milk. This cockroach species is the only one that’s viviparous, which means that it gives birth to live young. The cockroach uses the milk-like liquid to feed the babies before they are born. That milk contains special crystals that are located in the guts of cockroach embryos, which are full of protein. These crystals were first discovered back in 2004 by Subramanian Ramaswamy, who was studying at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. To learn

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