GlycanAge Blog: Glycoscience · Page 4

Do NAD Supplements Work to Promote Longevity? An In-Depth Look

In the quest for longevity, science has uncovered a crucial player: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). This coenzyme, present in all living cells, is a key player in our body's energy metabolism and cellular repair mechanisms. But its role extends beyond these functions, with emerging research suggesting it has …

Published:
August 11, 2023 Reading time:
10 minutes

Glycation vs Glycosylation: Examining Two Crucial Biochemical Processes

Biochemistry, the study of chemical processes within living organisms, is a complex and fascinating field. Within this realm, two phenomena, glycation and glycosylation, stand out for their profound impact on our health and well-being. Despite their phonetic similarity, these two mechanisms are distinct in nature and …

Published:
August 11, 2023 Reading time:
10 minutes

Protein & Antibody Glycosylation in Vaccines

Vaccines are a modern tool that helps us fight a variety of diseases. Since people are vaccinated and protected, there are 2 to 3 million fewer deaths worldwide.

Published:
July 7, 2023 Reading time:
5 minutes

Mind Full of Glycans

We truly have a treat for you - a lecture taught by Thomas Klarić, a member of our team researching the human glycome project. The lecture is titled The Mind Full of Glycans - an insight into the importance of glycans for the neurobiological processes in our brain.

Published:
November 17, 2021 Reading time:
5 minutes

Catching the Dominos As They Fall: A Breakthrough in the World of Glycans Might Help Cure Liver Disease

Glycans are essential for the proper functioning of almost any living being, including humans. The scientific community agrees that glycans are crucial to life as we know it. Still, the knowledge we have on them so far is greatly lacking and can be majorly improved. This is why new methods are constantly being develop…

Published:
June 30, 2021 Reading time:
5 minutes

Women Age Twice as Fast During Perimenopause

Antibodies are one of the main weapons in our arsenal for the eternal war against pathogens. They are an elaborate tool that can specifically recognise any foreign structure in our body. After binging to a foreign object, antibodies have to activate proper molecular mechanisms to deal with this foreign, non-self, obje…

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April 18, 2021 Reading time:
5 minutes

A Roadmap to Future

A great deal of achieving a sustainable tomorrow relies on making roadmaps for a required targeted research today. For that reason, member states of the United Nations created an initiative in 2015 for reaching global sustainability by 2030. This agenda consists of 17 Sustainable Growth Goals, and glycoscience plays a…

Published:
November 11, 2020 Reading time:
5 minutes

Predicting Vulnerability to Stress Using Glycans

We all react differently to stress. For example, it’s known that only 10-20% of people exposed to traumatic events will go on to develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a severe mental health condition that dramatically impacts on people’s quality of life. This suggests that there is some diversity in the human…

Published:
July 26, 2020 Reading time:
5 minutes

How Does GlycanAge Compare to Methylation as a Biomarker for Biological Age?

Published:
May 11, 2020

Measure, Normalise, Analyse

Glycans are complex sugar molecules that are present on the majority of proteins in the human body. As such, glycans have shown great potential as biomarkers of both biological and chronological ages, as well as various diseases, including cancer and autoimmune diseases. Large sample sizes need to be measured for stud…

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April 7, 2020 Reading time:
5 minutes

Glycosylation Profile of Sars-Cov-2 Spike Protein

A novel human coronavirus, named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which emerged in Wuhan, is currently one of the major health problems in the world. SARS-CoV-2 causes a respiratory illness named Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and so far, we have 1 276 732 reported cases of COVID-19 and 56…

Published:
April 6, 2020 Reading time:
5 minutes

Understanding Glycans in COVID-19 Drug Design

Coronaviruses have been around for centuries. The 21st century brought three known to cause severe human disease and global transmission concerns: SARS-CoV in 2002; MERS-CoV in 2012; and most recently SARS-CoV-2, which arose in 2019, causing an international pandemic. Given the substantial morbidity and mortality rate…

Published:
April 2, 2020 Reading time:
5 minutes