Sugar has been a staple in human diets since forever. Its sweet taste is especially appealing to kids, leading many parents ...

Lactose, or milk sugar, is a disaccharide made of two simple sugars – glucose and galactose – in a 1:1 ratio. It’s found in mammals’ milk and produced naturally to provide nutrition to ...

Carbohydrates consist of a series of repeating units called monosaccharides, which include glucose, fructose, and galactose. Table sugar is made of sucrose, a disaccharide produced through the ...

Background and aims: Hypoglycemia is a typical, potentially life-threatening symptom in classical galactosemia with blood galactose considerably elevated (up to ∼100 mg/dl). Therefore we tested ...

A Tokyo University of Science study identifies a novel β-galactosidase in Bacteroides xylanisolvens that breaks down ...

Absence of galactose residues in this region renders the IgA1 molecule immunogenic. In vitro evidence suggests that immune complex formation in IgA nephropathy is determined by the sugar content ...

Carbohydrate chains, or glycans, are complex sugar-like compounds that play important roles in various biological processes and structures in our bodies.