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When glycans start attracting general attention, the main features of glycobiology are described displaying the large panorama of functions and associated difficulties and challenges. With glycans being so little understood, there is plenty to learn.
According to Ajit Varki: “Glycoscientists are like kids in a candy shop. But the bad part is there aren’t many kids in the shop”
The carbohydrate 3D structure-prediction tools (builders) at GLYCAM-Web (glycam.org) are widely used for generating experimentally-consistent...
Glycosylation, the key reaction in synthetic glycochemistry, remains entirely unpredictable due to its complex mechanism...
The ‘taste of sweetness’ is one of the most iconic and universally recognised human sensory...
recognize sialic acid residues on cell surfaces. Pathogens and tumor cells exploit Siglecs to evade...
