Magali Phaner-Goutorbe: Synthetic sugars, new weapons to protect your lungs

A team of researchers in a consortium studied the interaction between the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa and epithelial cells in the lungs. Within this group, Magali Phaner-Goutorbe and Yann Chevolot of the Lyon Institute for Nanotechnologies (INL) specifically measured the inhibitory effect of synthetic sugars on this interaction between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and epithelial cells.