According to our experts, the vitamin C type will also determine its effectiveness. Pure vitamin C, known as L ascorbic acid, ...

Proteins decorated with glycans, or glycoproteins, and lipids decorated with glycans, or glycolipids, are ubiquitous in nature. For example, distinctive glycoproteins cover the surface of the viruses ...

When you talk about carbohydrates, most people's minds immediately go to the culinary world. But they're also the central ...

New research shows a fascinating correlation between where you live and the blood group you are most likely to have.

Decades ago, scientists looking for an alternative to animal testing cloned factor C, the horseshoe crab protein that senses ...

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Membrane lipids consist primarily of phospholipids, glycolipids and cholesterol, which can be arranged in bilayers and organized with integral and peripheral membrane proteins to generate ...

The glycocalyx is like a forest with long polysaccharides forming the forest’s canopy. This canopy sits above smaller tree-like glycoproteins and glycolipids – like the forest floor – which are ...

Initial studies of staphylococcal adhesion focused on binding to the extracellular matrix and plasma proteins. More recently, studies have investigated adhesins for human keratinocytes and their ...

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