Glycomaterials are produced by every living organism. They contain chains of sugars, called glycans, that have critical roles in health and disease. Of the four building blocks of life — glycans, proteins, lipids and nucleic acids — glycans are the most complex and most challenging to understand. The tool set for understanding these glycans, so crucial to life itself, lags far behind those available for understanding DNA, RNA and proteins.…
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Great diversity of subjects, opinions, expertise and sources in this month's round-up faculty, students and alumni appearing in the media:
Can narcissists actually change their ways? We asked the experts – professor of psychology Keith Campbell quoted in Huffington Post
Researchers receive $10M to create computational and informatics tools for glycoscience – project co-led by Professor of biochemistry and molecular biology …