Sweet Science
BBC Inside Science
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Sucralose and T-Cells
Sucralose worked better than the leading pharmaceutical wound disinfectant at luring the bacterial burden within the wound. We think there's a lot of work to do, but we think there may be some potential in topical application. I know that sugars are important to life, and sugar phosphates, the backbone of this main component of DNA, is the fact that these things mimic the taste of sugar. Is that at all relevant? There may be other physiological situation in which these being sweet quality as importance,. But we are not sure if this is the case with our story on T-cells.
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