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#glycans — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #glycans, aggregated by home.social.

  1. “Chemically linked to proteins and lipids on the cell surface, glycans direct communication and the exchange of materials between cells; they guide immune responses and substantially affect a cell’s functions and growth; they’re exploited by disease-causing viruses and other pathogens to gain entry. Glycans attach to biomolecules in every living creature”
    #Science #Glycans #CellBio #Scicomm
    knowablemagazine.org/content/a

  2. The final session of Day 2 of #biocuration2025 is on glycans. Kiyoko Aoki-Kinoshita explains that the name for GlyTouCan (glytoucan.org) is a play on words in Japanese, where "Tou" means sugar!

    #glycans #glygen #glytoucan #biocuration

  3. Had a lovely time talking about our work on #miRNA and #glycans #glycotime at U of Toronto Chem. Thank you Mark Nitz for hosting!