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Sell the hives, take up knitting – honey without bees!

“When you look at honey and how it’s made, it starts with bees collecting pollen and nectar from the flowers and then converting that into the building blocks of honey, which are fructose and glucose,” he says.

“We are simulating that in the lab, using micro-organisms which do the work of building the initial blocks of honey.”

 

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