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Mother Knows Best: Deciphering the Antibacterial Properties of Human Milk Oligosaccharides
14 Feb 2019
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Conspectus This Account describes the risky proposition of organizing a multidisciplinary team to interrogate a challenging problem in chemical biology: characterizing how human milk, at the molecular level, protects infants from infectious diseases. At the outset, our initial hypothesis was that human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) possess antimicrobial and antivirulence activities. Early on, we discovered that...
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