On National Cheese Lover’s Day, I would like to tell you about my cheesy
life. I was born in the Far East many years ago. Cheese was not in my
diet back then and was very difficult to get. As a young ...
Determination of sugars in food provides important nutritional
information but can be challenging to execute. Current methods suffer
from laborious sample preparation steps, lack of specificity, and
i...
Agave syrup is growing in popularity as an alternative to traditional
sweeteners such as table sugar and honey. But as its use grows, so does
the incentive for adulteration. High-performance anion chr...
Fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols
(FODMAPs) are important inactive components to improve over-the-counter
(OTC) pharmaceutical formulations. Compounds in this fa...
O-glycan profiling provides a wealth of information on pathologies of
diseases. However, O-linked glycosylation is challenging to study for
many reasons, including glycan heterogeneity, both in terms ...
Sorbitol is a polyol widely used as a food additive. Containing
one-third fewer calories than sucrose, it is often used as a texturing
agent or sweetener in foods such as chewing gum, candies, cookies...
Sialic acids, which include N-acetylneuraminic acid and
N-glycolylneuraminic acid, are a group of nine-carbon monosaccharides
often found at the terminal position of glycoproteins and glycolipids.
In ...
Trans-galactooligosaccharides (TGOS) are an important family of soluble
polysaccharides that are resistant to digestion in the small intestine.
As dietary prebiotics, TGOS can improve health by modula...
Co-authored by Dr. Jeffrey Rohrer, Director of Applications Development,
Dionex Products for Thermo Fisher Scientific. Glycosylation is an
important post-translational modification that plays a key ro...
A little spark in my brain took me back to school when my Maths teacher
said, "Here is a pencil and a piece of paper - can you draw a circle
with a dot in the middle without taking the pencil off the ...
Glycans play a pivotal role in determining the structure and function of
biopharmaceutical proteins, with even small changes in glycan
composition or location potentially affecting drug safety and eff...