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Akul Mehta

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Glycoscientist @theNCFG BIDMC-Harvard Medical School 👨‍💻👨‍🔬⚽📷 (Views are my own)

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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Got a glycoprotein as a target for your binder design competition on Monday? Look no further ⬇️ we got you 😎 #glycotime 🧪🔥
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Akul Mehta @akulmehta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is amazing how many different amino acids can be modified with glycans in nature. #glycotime
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Akul Mehta @akulmehta.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Excited to share our new paper on our latest technology development: GlycoStrips Full paper open access: www.cell.com/trends/biote... #glycotime #glycobiology #pointofcare #diagnostics #immunemonitoring #immunity #antibodies #glycans
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Point-of-care GlycoStrips detect serum and salivary antibodies to blood group antigens and pathogens
We present the development of GlycoStrip, which is a multiplex anti-glycan antibody analysis platform. GlycoStrip incorporates neoglycoproteins and other materials directly printed on nitrocellulose s...
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The NCFG @thencfg.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Check out fascinating insights on nature’s most abundant polymers in our latest blog post. 🌱 Cellulose 🦀 Chitin (found in insects & fungi) 💪 Hyaluronan 🍚 Starch 🦠 Peptidoglycan Read research.bidmc.org/ncfg/blog/27... #Glycobiology #Science #Biochemistry #Nature #CellBiology #Glycotime
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27] Unusual Observations about Microbial, Plant, and Animal Polysaccharides
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Joseph Guhlin @josephguhlin.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Coconuts
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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"We identified 13 genome-wide significant loci associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection. The strongest signal was a single nucleotide polymorphism in an intron of ST6GAL1 (...) connected to three other associated loci (harboring MUC1, MUC5AC and MUC16)" #glycotime 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Central role of glycosylation processes in human genetic susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infections with Omicron variants - Nature Genetics
Genome-wide analyses identify 13 loci associated with susceptibility to infection with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants, including variation in ST6GAL1, previously associated with influenza susceptibility,...
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Joao Pereira @jdpereira.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
But Joao, aren’t you afraid of being scooped? No. It’s an ultra-rare childhood epilepsy. If you scoop me and the kids get help from it, I will help you scoop me and then move on.
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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Wee thread 🧵⬇️ on our new #glycotime with @siglecdude.bsky.social John Klassen and @glycocode.bsky.social 🥳 where we show Siglecs as molecular precision tools, able to recognise sialylated glycans with surgical precision in their natural environment, not bad for a lectin! 😎 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
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The NCFG @thencfg.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Glycomics Core at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with LC-MS/MS proteomics/glycoproteomics experience. For more information check: research.bidmc.org/ncfg/careers... #proteomics #glycomics #glycoproteomics #lcms
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow - BIDMC Glycomics Core
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GlyCosmos @glycosmos.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
#GGDB (GlycoGene) in #ACGG-DB is a database focusing on glycogenes within #GlyCosmos and provides key information—including substrate specificity—on glycosyltransferases and sulfotransferases to support glycosylation/glycan biosynthesis analysis across species #glycotime
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Akul Mehta @akulmehta.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is amazing work! #glycotime
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Ryan Flynn @raflynn5.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Science update from my postdoc Peiyuan Chai - his work “glycoRNA complexed with heparan sulfate regulates VEGF-A signaling” is now published @nature.com uncovering a new layer or glycoRNA-regulation of growth factor mediated control physiological processes rdcu.be/e1bBX
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 25/01/2026
Enzyme catalyzed bioorthogonal chemistry published at ACS Cent Sci pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Directed Evolution of Enzymes for Bioorthogonal Chemistry Using Acid Chloride Proximity Labeling
Combining bioorthogonal protecting groups with localized catalysts that can unmask them is a powerful approach to spatially and temporally modulate molecular activity. Enzymes are appealing catalysts ...
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 21/01/2026
Exciting new work from @thewoolab.bsky.social just out @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Identification of an allosteric site on the E3 ligase adapter cereblon - Nature
An allosteric site on the E3 ligase adapter cereblon can be targeted to modulate the efficacy of cereblon in targeted protein degradation applications.
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Akul Mehta @akulmehta.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
#Glycans probably have more "copies/cell" than #proteins and changes in #glycosylation could potentially be remarkable biomarkers for diseases as well as targets for therapeutics. This post explores the abundance of glycans on the cell surface and it is worth a read to recognize these #biomolecules.
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Peter Head @peterheadcbe.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment
Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...
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GlycoShape @glycoshape.org · 03/01/2026
Happy new year 2026 #glycotime! 🥳 We just introduced some useful options to Re-Glyco Ensemble. In the Advanced Settings you can now select a seed (positive integer) to reproduce structural ensemble of your favourite glycoforms such as the one below that you will see soon in an upcoming paper,
Structure of a protein (cyan/teal) rendered as surface with 50 frames representing the dynamic ensemble of the glycans (white surface and sticks) depicted at the three sites (N93, N99 and N104) indicated by the 2D SNFG symbols and corresponding GlyTouCan IDs. Graphic rendering with VMD
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 23/12/2025
OSTP has issued a request for information, please share with them your ideas for how to improve government functions related to science funding and policy www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Notice of Request for Information; Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requests input from all interested parties on Federal policy updates that aim to accelerate the American scientific enterprise, enable groundbreaking...
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GlycoShape @glycoshape.org · 15/12/2025
Happy birthday to us! 🥂🎂🥳 We are only 2 yo, but so much #glycotime happened since Dec 2023! ⬇️🧵 We truly appreciate your support, you fabulous glycoengineers around the world and we have so many exciting new tools for you coming up in 2026 to make your 3D glycoforms even better and faster! 🤩
Christmas wreath obtained by photoshop (gimp.org) of a protein structure with glycans in white rebuilt with Re-Glyco, protein in orange surface, red beads and green cartoons from PDB 8DLO
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The NCFG @thencfg.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Have you heard of sugar alcohols / artificial sweeteners, such as erythritol, sorbitol, mannitol and xylitol? Learn more about these interesting small sugars and where they are found in our latest blog post, research.bidmc.org/ncfg/blog/23... #glycotime #glycosylation #science #artificialsweeteners
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23] Facts About: Sugar Alcohols
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Wiep Klaas Smits (ExpBac/CMAT) @smitslab.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Gut mucin fucosylation dictates the entry of botulinum toxin complexes www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Gut mucin fucosylation dictates the entry of botulinum toxin complexes - Nature Communications
Botulinum toxins vary in oral toxicity, but the reasons are unclear. Here, the authors show that the differences can be due to variations in one of the toxin’s components, the hemagglutinin complex, w...
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GlycoShape @glycoshape.org · 04/12/2025
For some unique #glycotime: C-man is a rare (but evolutionarily very old[1]) post translational modification of proteins, where the C2 of Trp in W-x-x-W/C sequons are linked to a single man through a C-C bond 🤯 This and its position within the structure stabilises the (unusual for man) 1C4 chair[2]
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glycoexpasy.bsky.social @glycoexpasy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Cannot hide my joy, relief, excitement being able to share the outcome of persevering (to say the least) collaborative work. So... the MS glyco(proteomics) guidelines are published!! www.mcponline.org/article/S153... Many thanks to @beilstein-institut.bsky.social @glycosmos.bsky.social @sib.swiss
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Update and new implementation of the MIRAGE reporting guidelines for mass spectrometry experiments in glycoscience
The MIRAGE (Minimum Information Required for A Glycomics Experiment) guidelines for mass spectrometry (MS) data were initially developed to standardize the reporting of instrumentation, data acquisiti...
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kiyokof.bsky.social @kiyokof.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We are excited to share our #glycotime meeting report on the 1st GlyCosmos Symposium & Jamboree in *Glycobiology*! DOI: doi.org/10.1093/glyc... Participants advanced glycan-binding molecule resources through hands-on work on lectin curation and FAIR glycoinformatics within #GlyCosmos.
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Meeting Report on the 1st GlyCosmos Symposium & Jamboree —Community-Driven Expansion of Glycan-Binding Molecules Resources
Chiaki Nagai-Okatani, Masae Hosoda, Winnie Hsiung, Takashi Sato, Hiroaki Sakaue, Sayaka Fuseya, Eriko Fukuda, Issaku Yamada, Kiyoko F Aoki-Kinoshita, Atsus
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Jay Rogers (@jaydrogers) @jay.serversideup.net · 19/11/2025
It's finally here! serversideup/php v4 is now stable 🎉 😅 Over a year of work 🐘 FrankenPHP & Laravel Octane support 🤖 LLM integration on our docs 🤝 13 new contributors ❤️ All open source Run PHP and Laravel anywhere you want. Now go build awesome stuff, Internet. 🚀
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Chris Ashwood @cashwood.proteaglyco.com · 17/11/2025
Big day for foundational glycoRNA research, with two preprints published in Nature EMM. Both urge greater analytical rigour in the field. 1. RNA-associated glycoconjugates highlight potential ambiguities in glycoRNA analysis 2. Proteins are a source of glycans found in preparations of glycoRNA
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Hiren Joshi @glyco.me · 11/11/2025
Another bump for the postdoc and PhD positions still open at the center and postdoc specifically within my group (same link to apply). We’re looking for wet/dry lab, and I’m specifically after people who do magic with computers!
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Jay Rogers (@jaydrogers) @jay.serversideup.net · 22/10/2025
The @nuxt.com team is highly underrated 💯 I'm working with Nuxt Content, and this product blows my mind 🤯 It's easy, flexible, and fast. Open sourcing Nuxt UI was a solid move too. You know you're crushing it when a SERVER GUY compliments JavaScript 🤓
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Emma Scott @dremmascott.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Sharing our recent pre-print where we drill down further into the transcriptional regulation of Siglec ligands. Here we show that tissue specific regulatory networks dictate changes in sialoglycan patterns. Work led by Rebecca Garnham and postdoc Adam Duxfield. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The Androgen Receptor and MYC synergise to modulate the synthesis of Siglec-7 ligands in prostate cancer
Glyco-immune checkpoints have recently been shown to be critical mediators of immunotherapy resistance across multiple cancer types. In clinical trials, immunotherapeutic treatments for prostate cance...
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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Breaking down fucoidan takes some innovative thinking, but evolution already got it! #glycotime 🧪🔺 "Remarkably, two-thirds of the interacting residues are dedicated to the recognition of sulfate groups along the glycoside chains." 🤯😍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Structure-function relationship of the GH168 fucanase reveals an unusual enzyme recognition mechanism for sulfated polysaccharide - Nature Communications
Authors identify and characterize 16 endo−1,3-fucanases within the GH168 family sequence space, unveiling a recognition mechanism for sulfate polysaccharides. These findings can promote the applicatio...
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Jay Rogers (@jaydrogers) @jay.serversideup.net · 15/10/2025
You're kidding me!? 👀 TIL about "post_start" in Docker Compose 🐳 You can run commands as a privileged user on startup, but still run your services as an unprivileged user. This dramatically simplifies bootstrapping an app! 🤩
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Jay Rogers (@jaydrogers) @jay.serversideup.net · 12/10/2025
serversideup/php v4.0-beta1 is now available!!! It's a next level Docker image: 🐘 FrankenPHP now available ❤️ Improved native health checks 🤖 Advanced Laravel automations 🤩 12 new contributors Our biggest open source release yet. LET'S GO PHP!! 🚀
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Mike Barlow @mikebarlow.uk · 11/10/2025
🧑‍💻 New GitHub integration is here! Connect your GitHub account, choose an existing markdown repo (or create a new one), and hosted.md will build your site automatically. Push to GitHub, rebuild instantly ⚡ Full update 👉 link.hosted.md/kDSFq
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The Best Markdown Site Generator for Blogs, Docs, and More - Hosted.MD
With hosted.md, you can publish Markdown online without setting up servers, configuring a CMS, or dealing with complicated tools.
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Chris Ashwood @cashwood.proteaglyco.com · 10/10/2025
If there was a certain vendor developing a brand new ion mobility instrument and is in the process of choosing a file format, this is timed incredibly well for them to catch the wave.
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Daniel Bojar @dbojar.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
We're hiring! 🚀 **PhD positions:** Computational focus: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... Experimental focus: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... **Postdoc positions:** Computational focus: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... Experimental focus: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
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Doctoral student in Natural Science Specialising in Biology
Doctoral position in Natural Science Specialising in Biology focusing on Bioinformatics The Department of Chemistry and Molecular
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Hiren Joshi @glyco.me · 09/10/2025
employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... Hi all! We’re hiring at our brand new Center for Glycocalyx Research, across all areas - but I am also looking for postdocs to join my group specifically!
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Postdoc at the Copenhagen Center for Glycocalyx Research at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
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Akul Mehta @akulmehta.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Most people think that #glycosylation is only extracellular. But there is increasing evidence for the existence of intracellular proteins also being glycosylated. Check out this blog post to learn more about this topic!
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Daniel Bojar @dbojar.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Here's something non-science-y for a change: Check out the free demo of my upcoming game on Steam! 🥳 store.steampowered.com/app/3858960/... (Arcaneering is a cozy factory automation game, with a bit of RPG elements, made in Godot) #gamedev #indie #pcgaming #automation #basebuilding
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Arcaneering: Beyond Automation on Steam
Automate the arcane! Build spell-powered factories, reclaim ancient territories filled with magical secrets, and discover game-changing technology hidden across procedurally generated worlds. Master b...
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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Our work @benschulz.bsky.social on the specificity and the mechanism of activation of the eukaryotic oligosaccharyltransferase is now on Glycopedia ⬇️🎉🥳, the largest repository of #glycotime news and educational material online! Thank you Serge Perez 🤓❤️ glycopedia.eu/2025/09/09/r...
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Regulation of N-glycosylation efficiency by eukaryotic oligosaccharyltransferase - Glycopedia
Oligosaccharyltransferase (OST) catalyses the key step of N-glycosylation, transferring immature N-glycans to select Asn residues in nascent proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Asn are more li...
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Akul Mehta @akulmehta.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A colleague received an 18 page review for a manuscript they recently submitted. They took several days to respond to all the comments meticulously (even though some of them didn't make any sense to them). When I saw the review, I was able to immediately recognize that this was AI generated. 🧵
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Daniel Bojar @dbojar.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Thrilled to share some news!! We'll be recruiting soon to start with some exciting new work in glycobiology, so watch this space... #ERCStG
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Lucy Crouch @lucyicm.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
New paper! The characterisation of PNGaseL published in The Royal Society Open Science New Talent Collection. This paper describes a successful bioprospecting-to-commercialisation project royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #glycotime @cassiebakshani.bsky.social
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PNGaseL from Flavobacterium akiainvivens targets a diverse range of N-glycan structures | Royal Society Open Science
Peptide:N-glycosidases (PNGases) are used by a wide range of organisms to remove N-glycan structures from proteins for use as either nutrients or in glycoprotein processing. PNGaseF is the most well-characterized enzyme of this family and is widely used ...
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 27/08/2025
Spread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
It’s certainly Not Good.
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kiyokof.bsky.social @kiyokof.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Preset searching in GlycoPOST will allow you to perform AND searches by keyword or by update date and time, making it much easier to find the desired preset among the large number of glycomics data registered. This feature will be available in the next release! #glycotime #glycosmos
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The NCFG @thencfg.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Exciting virtual seminar by Dr. Maxence Noel (From Dr. Richard Cummings' Lab) - "Brain N and O glycosylation: Discoveries, Tools and Dysregulation in Disease", held by the BGDG. Thursday July 17, 2025 at 12pm EDT. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #glycotime #neuroglycobiology #neuroscience
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The NCFG @thencfg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
📢New article alert! 'Blood group O expression in normal tissues and tumors', just published in FEBS Journal, highlights findings using our lamprey-derived monoclonal antibodies towards specific H antigen epitopes. Read at: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #glycotime #glycans #bloodgroups
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The H antigen (O blood group), the precursor to A and B blood groups, is expressed on human erythrocytes. Two novel monoclonal antibodies generated using sea lamprey immunization, Tn4-31L and OmcFL3-...
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The NCFG @thencfg.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Antifreeze glycoproteins: not just for fish! 🤔 They could revolutionize food preservation and organ cryopreservation. Read more about this exciting potential in our latest interesting fact: research.bidmc.org/ncfg/blog/19... #glycotime #glycofacts #cryopreservation
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19] Facts About: Antifreeze Glycoproteins (AFGPs)
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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
New fabulous #glycotime fresh off the bioRxiv press!⬇️ 🎉 In this brilliant team effort led by Klaudia Sobczak, Jesús Jimenez-Barbero, and June Ereño Orbea 🤩 with many contributions 🌍, we characterised the 3D structure + binding mechanism of sialosides by Siglec-10 🧵 1/3 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Chris Ashwood @cashwood.proteaglyco.com · 10/06/2025
By deep characterisation of 186 N-glycan standards, we @thencfg.bsky.social have made the most comprehensive targeted LC-MS glycomic assay to date. Non-reduced native glycan analysis is key. We hope this enables anyone with QqQ and interest in #glycotime to measure specific N-glycan structures.
186 pure glycan structures used to construct a targeted glycomic assay
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