Two Kiwi siblings with the same rare genetic condition that took their brother’s life are fundraising for a groundbreaking ...
To maintain vaccine efficacy, WHO regularly updates influenza vaccine strains based on global epidemiological, virological, ...
Scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and their international collaborators have discovered that anemonefish have evolved to maintain very low levels of sialic acid ...
Work from their lab had previously found that ST6GAL1 is overactive in pancreatic cancer, peppering cancerous cells’ membranes with a sugar called 2,6-sialic acid. An abundance of sugars on their ...
A study now identifies a pathway whereby growth factor signalling induces local acidification, driving sialic acid removal and galectin-3-mediated integrin internalization. O-fucosylation ...
The Bellis laboratory has two principal areas of research interest: Role of receptor glycosylation in conferring a stem-like, apoptosis-resistant cell phenotype Our laboratory has determined that the ...