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Sugars Get an 'Ome of their Own
With advanced synthesis and detection techniques, the pace of glycomics research accelerates
The Scientist 2004, 18(15):45
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To the lay public, sugars are the villains behind expanding waistlines and rotting teeth, and until recently, the view from the lab bench was not much different. Sugars were considered so irrelevant, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Ram Sasisekharan, that biochemists "mainly developed tools to remove them from proteins they were studying."
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