barbarum polysaccharide − could elicit important neuroprotection of the eyes.” The results of a year-long, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 42 people with retinitis pigmentosa done in ...

Healthcare providers, public health officials and policymakers need to develop a greater understanding of the serious health impact of pneumococcal disease in elderly adults. In addition to ...

A study reveals carrageenan as an effective binder for lithium-sulfur batteries, enhancing performance with eco-friendly, ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended granting marketing authorization for the pneumococcal vaccine Capvaxive ...

Prevenar 13 is a mixture of the outer sugar coating (polysaccharide) from 13 different strains or serotypes of bacteria called Streptococcus pneumoniae. Each serotype is joined to a non-toxic ...

Polysaccharides serve as stores of energy, as in glycogen (branched polysaccharide of glucose), and as a structural component of bacterial cell walls, as in cellulose (linear polysaccharide of ...

A recent article in ChemSusChem explored the binding of Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenases (LPMOs) to polyethylene terephthalate (PET), converting the hydrophobic surface of PET hydrophilic.

The obtained bio-plastics exhibited novel unexpected properties that cannot be found in common petroleum-plastics, derived from their unique chemical structure of the original polysaccharide backbone.

These microbes possess dozens of different multiprotein complexes encoded at specific sites in the genome called polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs). PUL complexes enable the bacteria to bind ...