New Discovery: Toward sugar origami
Folded carbohydrates could open up completely new perspectives in biomedicine and materials science
06-Jul-2023 -
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPICI) have designed a carbohydrate sequence capable of folding into a stable secondary structure. Until now, such self-folding biopolymers had only been developed for DNA and proteins, and sugars were previously considered too ...
biomedicine
carbohydrates
glycans
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