EU RESEARCH PROJECT DEVELOPS SUGAR MOLECULES STUDY
March 1st, 2013
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project is creating new manufacturing processes using enzymes to add sugar molecules to medicines, including antibiotics and vitamins, a European Commission note has said, stressing this “can often improve their function…” This process – called glycosylation - can for instance make “Vitamin C lasts much longer in storage”, it added. Stressing researchers in the Novosides project will “develop biocatalysts with potentially large-scale applications in the pharmaceutical, food and cosmetic industries”, the note ...
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