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Making Human Breast Milk Sugars in Plants

  • by Kara Manke
  • June 13, 2024
  • Science & Technology
In a new study published June 13 in Nature Food, UC researchers reprogrammed plants’ sugar-making machinery to produce a diverse array of these human milk sugars, also called human milk oligosaccharides.
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