Top 10 stories from GlycoNet in 2020

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Top 10 stories of 2020 from GlycoNet

These researchers are shaping the future of Canadian healthcare and innovations.

By Ali Chou

In 2020, GlycoNet researchers have made impressive discoveries, including promising inroads against diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases, uncovered new technologies to diagnose cancer or treat rare genetic disorders, as well as shedding light on improved cell therapies and organ transplantations.

As the new year approaches, here is a look back at some of the most exciting advances from GlycoNet researchers in 2019. Click on the slideshow below to learn more about each story:

1. Connecting the dots: blood group sugar and COVID-19

2. Better diagnostic tools for COVID-19

3. Sugar as the key to an early detection of breast cancer

4. New tools to study sugar-binding proteins in the immune system

5. Inhibition of sugar metabolism for diabetes treatment

6. The link between sugar molecules and health risk from influenza

7. The Achilles heel of fungal pathogens revealed by sugar research

8. Fast-tracking antiviral treatments with sugar and nucleic acid analogue

9. A sugar-derived solution for heart failure

10. Health economics study of a sugar-based detection method for prostate cancer

Which one is your favorite breakthrough? Share with us on Twitter (@glyconet_nce)!

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