Oligosaccharides of breast milk

In the new study, scientists reprogrammed Nicotiana benthamiana plants to produce a wide variety of beneficial sugars found in breast milk, called breast milk oligosaccharides. Credit: Colin Barnum

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Today, it is possible to produce a small number of breast milk oligosaccharides with the help of transgenic E. coli bacteria. However, isolating the beneficial molecules from other toxic products is an expensive process, and only a limited number of