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Transforming Glycoscience: A Roadmap for the Future
Author(s): National Research Council (Author), Division on Earth and Life Studies (Author), Board on Life Sciences (Author), Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (Author), Committee on Assessing the Importance and Impact of Glycomics and Glycosciences (Author)
- Publisher: National Academies Press
- Publication Date: 23 Oct. 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 0309260833
- ISBN-13: 9780309260831
Book Description
A new focus on glycoscience, a field that explores the structures and functions of sugars, promises great advances in areas as diverse as medicine, energy generation, and materials science, this report finds. Glycans–also known as carbohydrates, saccharides, or simply as sugars–play central roles in many biological processes and have properties useful in an array of applications. However, glycans have received little attention from the research community due to a lack of tools to probe their often complex structures and properties. Transforming Glycoscience: A Roadmap for the Future presents a roadmap for transforming glycoscience from a field dominated by specialists to a widely studied and integrated discipline, which could lead to a more complete understanding of glycans and help solve key challenges in diverse fields.
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