Borrowing a natural recipe for sugar synthesis

Synthetic chemists, like overzealous nutritionists, usually avoid sugars. Nature, an expert chemist, can shift the sweets from one molecule to another with enviable finesse. But in the lab, scientists struggle to attach just one sugar molecule to another chemical unit, a process known as glycosylation. Now, researchers have unearthed nature's sweet secret, which could lead to improved chemical synthesis, vaccines, and even life-saving drugs.

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