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11 December 2025
Trouble with Sugar
Many of the proteins that cells bear – inside and out – are adorned in a specific way with sugars (a process called glycosylation) that contribute to the whole molecule's function – faulty glycosylation can even lead to cancer developing. Here, researchers have grown organoids (mini-organs) from patient stomach tissue with and without tumours in order to study the complexities and influences of glycosylation patterns in health and disease
Read the published research article here
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- Image from work by Liliana Santos-Ferreira and colleagues
- i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Cell Reports, November 2025
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