It is probably impossible to build this structure with a ribose sugar in place of the deoxyribose, as the extra oxygen atom would make too close a van der Waals contact. The previously published X ...

Early-stage research suggests that a naturally occurring sugar, deoxyribose, could be a game-changer in promoting hair growth. The journey began with a study at the University of Sheffield in the ...

It all started with research on a sugar that naturally occurs in the body and helps form DNA: the 'deoxyribose' part of deoxyribonucleic acid. While studying how these sugars heal the wounds of ...