glucose
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A new optical sensor costing just $10 could bring laboratory-level precision to wearable health monitors, potentially allowing people to track blood glucose without needles.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Carbon dioxide and water meet in the chloroplasts, where solar energy breaks down their molecules and reassembles them into the sugar glucose plus “a side order of oxygen,” the author writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
When olive oil was given before glucose, the initial rise in blood sugar was smaller than when the oil was administered afterward.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
The third group received glucose first, with olive oil administered 15 minutes afterward.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
When they switched back to glucose, these enzymes disappeared and glucose-digesting enzymes reappeared.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Sugars may be divided into two classes,—the sucroses, C12H22O11, and the glucoses, C6H12O6.
From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus Phillips Williams
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