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Lectins: Widespread in Commonly Eaten Foods

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Lectins are proteins that facilitate cell to cell binding. Letins accomplish this by weakly joining to carbohydrate signal molecules on the surface of cells, and when two such conjugations are made, the cells become joined through an intermediary lectin. The … Continue reading →

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