Featured articles
From 2006-2011, the Consortium for Functional Glycomics (CFG) and the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) collaborated to provide the Functional Glycomics Update, a one-stop resource with monthly updates on the latest developments in glycobiology. Here, access the complete archive of Featured Articles, specially written editors' reviews on the most exciting findings in glycobiology. Original pieces created by NPG as part of the NPG-CFG partnership are subject to copyright by the Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited; used with permission.
November 2007
Carbohydrate recognition: A chemistry lab's lectin mimicry
Specific carbohydrates can be recognized in a lectin-like way by small, chemically synthesized molecules.
Original research paper: Science 318, 619-622 (2007)
doi:10.1126/science.1148735Stem cell migration: Your brain on (polysialic) acid
The presence of polysialic acid, an acidic polysaccharide, on neural cell adhesion molecules regulates cell migration and is required for the development of the mouse brain.
Original research paper: Stem Cells, 13 September- (2007)
