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A Spoonful of Sugar

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Botanic Garden
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Part of the Healing Power of Plants lecture series held at the Botanic Gardens.
The talk will describe how unusual nitrogen- containing sugar analogues produced by plants are being discovered by research undertaken in collaboration with Oxford chemists. These sugar analogues may well explain the therapeutic activity of many plants and form the basis of important new medicines.

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Botanic Garden
People
Robert Nash
Keywords
botany
gardening
sugar
Health
nitrogen
botanic gardens
Medicine
Department: Botanic Garden
Date Added: 21/12/2010
Duration: 01:04:46

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