galactose

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The researchers discovered that intelectin-2 from both humans and mice can bind to a sugar molecule called galactose.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

Another enzyme produced by the bacteria, known as arabinose isomerase, then converts the galactose into tagatose.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026

Lactose, or milk sugar, is a disaccharide made of two simple sugars – glucose and galactose – in a 1:1 ratio.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2024

Following her illness, Mills was diagnosed with galactosaemia, a rare genetic disorder affecting up to one in 45,000 babies which prevents her body from turning galactose into glucose.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2024

Arabic acid has the formula C23H38O22, and one molecule of this acid serves as the nucleus for the union of eight galactose and four arabinose groups, linked together in some unknown way.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred