glycans in A Sentence

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    Glycans label our own cells and identify them as‘self'.

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    Of these four, Glycans are the final arbiters of how our cells behave.

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    For example, the immune system can mistake"self" Glycans as if they were"foreign" molecules.

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    But the study of Glycans, also known as glycomics, is about 20 years behind that of other fields.

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    These countless combinations make mapping Glycans a difficult task because we need a practical and efficient way to analyze hundreds of thousands of glycan patterns.

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    Therapies that either block these viruses from interacting with our Glycans, or that attack virus-specific Glycans may be a new avenue to treating these infections.

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    Interestingly, in such instances, it is the Glycans present on the misbehaving self-attacking antibodies that will dictate the strength of the attack on the body.

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    Being on the outside of our cells, Glycans are the first point of contact for most cellular interactions and thus influence how our cells communicate with one another.

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    If we consider the surface of the cell to be soil, then Glycans would be the wonderfully diverse plant-life and foliage that sprout up and bring color and identity to the cell.

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    However, although we now lack the ability to produce Neu5Gc, our bodies still have the ability to incorporate it into the Glycans on our cells if we obtain it by eating red meat.

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    By capitalizing on engineering advancements and improvements in sample processing, our technique can monitor thousands of Glycans at once, which allows us to characterize the Glycans in cells from healthy controls and patients with a variety of different diseases.

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