Carbohydrates are abundant in nature, forming the basis of plant leaves and stems and the exoskeletons of marine organisms. But scientists don’t know a lot about the structures and functions of these ...

Scientists have been unable to determine the structure of a biologically important so-called GAG proteoglycan -- or even to agree whether these remarkably complex molecules have well-defined ...

PROF. W. N. HAWOKTH'S presidential address to Section B (Chemistry) deals with the molecular structure of carbohydrates. Ten years have elapsed since the structural model of glucose was first ...

As part of a $3.7 million National Institutes of Health-funded project, Distinguished Professor Carlito Lebrilla and colleagues are building a library of biomarkers associated with specific ...

The Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPICI) has created a carbohydrate sequence that can fold into a stable secondary structure. To date, self-folding biopolymers had only been ...

Carbohydrates serve as identifiers for cancer cells, researchers have discovered. Their findings show how these molecules may serve as signals for cancer and explain what’s going on inside these cells ...