Hyaluronic acid was discovered in 1934 by Karl Meyer and John Palmer, scientists at Columbia University, New York. They isolated the substance from a cow’s eye and derived the name from hyalos (the Greek word for glass) and the uronic sugar found in the substance.
This marked the birth of one of nature’s most versatile and fascinating macromolecules. Today, this macromolecule is most frequently referred to as Hyaluronan, reflecting the fact that it exists in vivo as a polyanion and not in the protonated acid form.













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