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Prof Azra Raza's Lecture for The Human Glycome Project Researchers

Azra Raza is an oncologist, and professor of medicine, and director of the Myelodysplastic Syndrome Center at Columbia University, New York. She has dedicated almost her entire life to fighting cancer and discovering ways to prevent it by detecting the first cancer cell in the human body.

By The GlycanAge Team
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What Are Vaccines Doing to Our Bodies, and Could Sugars Make the Vaccines Better?

A considerable expansion in glycomics capabilities is required to fully exploit protein glycosylation for the development of new vaccines.

By Tea Petrovic
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The Sweet Secret of a Healthy Pregnancy

Scientists discovered that sugars attached to the immune cells may be the reason behind improvement of the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis during pregnancy.

By Iwona Wójcik
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Could Eating Soybeans Help Protect Men from Viral Infections?

Oestrogen activity strengthens the female immune system, but phytoestrogens, such as those found in soybeans, could show the same beneficial effect in boosting male immunity to reduce the odds of viral infection

By Ph. D. Julija Jurić
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The Role of Antibody Glycans in the Development of Severe COVID-19

Glycans attached to antibodies are an important regulator of our immune system. Read about their role in development of severe COVID 19 disease.

By Prof Gordan Lauc, PhD
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Glycans as Drivers of a Disease Risk

The relative risk of many diseases increases with age. Individuals age at different rates, and while some might show a surprising level of health and fitness in their eight decades, others might be troubled by age-related diseases already in their late thirties. An increasing body of evidence suggests glycans play a role at establishing an individual’s risk of having poor health.

By Ph.D. Marina Martinic Kavur
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Changes of Glycans With Age in Different Parts of the World

Read how glycans change with age and lifestyle factors across the World.

By Prof Gordan Lauc, PhD
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It’s Official – Stress Alters the Way Brain Proteins Are Glycosylated

A recently published study has shown for the first time that traumatic stress also leads to long-lasting changes in the glycosylation of brain proteins.

By Thomas Klarić
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The Role of Glycans and Water in the Seasonality of COVID-19

Can ranges in temperature and humidity decrease or increase COVID-19 severity and mortality? Read the article to find out more.

By Prof Gordan Lauc, PhD
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Effects of Estrogens on the GlycanAge Index of Biological Age

Could hormone replacement therapy have an impact on your biological age? Read more about a recent study, addressing this question by analysing GlycanAge in 36 healthy premenopausal women.

By Prof Gordan Lauc, PhD
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Can Glycans Predict the Loss of Kidney Function

Chronic kidney failure is one of the most common and debilitating complications of diabetes. Changes in glycosylation of immunoglobulin G (IgG) accompany biological agеing and regulates inflammation in diabetes – a process that participates in kidney function decline. A new study looks at the correlation between kidney function and IgG glycosylation.

By Ph.D. Marina Martinic Kavur
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Sialylation of Immunoglobulin E Is a Determinant of Allergic Pathogenicity

IgE glycan composition and specifically sialylation is established as an important regulator of allergic disease.

By Marija Pezer, PhD
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