Carbohydrate chains play physiologically relevant roles. For instance, many biologically important proteins and lipids inside our body have carbohydrate chains attached to them. These “sugar” chains, ...

Researchers at National Taiwan University have developed a tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy platform that can identify tiny structural differences in oligosaccharides without fluorescent labels. The ...

Left to their own devices, polysaccharides like starch and glycogen would take millions of years to break down. Luckily for life forms that store energy in these molecules, enzymes called glycosidases ...