Once confined to traditional medicine, tremella polysaccharides —natural compounds derived from tremella mushrooms—are now ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 116, No. 1 (January 2, 2019), pp. 193-198 (6 pages) Glycoconjugate vaccines are among the most effective ...

The polysaccharide (sugar substance) chitosan has a documented antibacterial effect. New research shows that this antibacterial activity varies according to the chemical composition of the chitosan.

The pneumococcus undergoes spontaneous phase variation between an opaque and a transparent colony form. In an animal model of systemic infection following intraperitoneal inoculation of mice, the ...

Conjugate vaccines are composed of bacterial polysaccharide antigens covalently linked to protein carriers, enabling T cell-dependent immune responses that induce high-affinity antibodies and ...

Professor Iwata Tadahisa et al. of the University of Tokyo have developed an innovative high performance bioplastics from various polysaccharides obtained from natural biomass or by enzymatic ...

Albizzia julibrissin is a widely distributed plant in China. Its dried stem bark has been used in traditional oriental medicine to treat insomnia, diuresis, sthenia, ascaricide, and confusion.

Chemists have synthesized a novel class of carbohydrate polymers that could help retain the function of enzymes and protein drugs during storage (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, DOI: 10.1021/ja5036804). When ...

By cultivating Antrodia cinnamomea in a carefully controlled environment rich in ammonium sulfate, the team was able to stimulate the fungus to produce a special kind of molecule called a sulfated ...