To improve water purification, researchers have turned to plants. Plants defend their cells with a barrier of polysaccharides, made of macromolecules with repeating sugar units, that trap metal ions.

To improve water purification, researchers have turned to plants. Plants defend their cells with a barrier of polysaccharides, made of macromolecules with repeating sugar units, that trap metal ions.

Harold J. Jennings, Apurba K. Bhattacharjee, David R. Bundle, C. Paul Kenny, Adèle Martin, Ian C. P. Smith, Structures of the Capsular Polysaccharides of Neisseria meningitidis as Determined by ...

Chemists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany) have set a milestone by preparing the two largest carbohydrates ever assembled. Using an Automated Glycan Assembly ...

Epidemiologic, immunologic, and genetic evidence indicate that the K1 capsular polysaccharide confers invasiveness to Escherichia coli. The capsule, an α-2→8-linked homopolymer of sialic acid (NeuNAc) ...

To improve water purification, researchers have turned to plants. Plants defend their cells with a barrier of polysaccharides, made of macromolecules with repeating sugar units, that trap metal ions.