How Humans Make Up For An 'Inborn' Vitamin C Deficiency

Courtesy ScienceDaily Wed, 03/19/2008 - 22:00

A new study appears to explain how humans, along with other higher primates, guinea pigs and fruit bats, get by with what some have called an "inborn metabolic error": an inability to produce vitamin C from glucose.

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