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At a recent health fair a participant wondered if lectins were unhealthy, because she had heard they weren’t. Lectins are proteins found in many plant foods, particularly whole grains and legumes ...

Lectins are a family of proteins found in many plants, dairy, yeast, eggs, and seafood that can bind to other molecules, notably sugar and carbohydrate molecules, that are present both in foods, and ...

Earnest attempts at initiating macromolecular crystallography, which is central to modern biology, started in India in the 1970s. The most important component of the efforts was on plant lectins. The ...