As many as four molecules of a particular sugar called sialic acid may get snapped into place as final links on an IgG molecule’s branching sugar chains. How many actually do can make a big difference ...

Researchers at Stanford Medicine found that people who produce more sialic acid tend to have milder flu symptoms.

Sialic acid levels on antibodies reduce flu severity by controlling inflammation, not viral replication. This discovery could ...

Flu viruses enter cells by attaching to sugars that stick up from their surfaces called sialic acids. Birds have an abundance of a kind of sialic acid called alpha 2,3, but humans primarily have ...

Flu viruses enter cells by attaching to sugars that stick up from their surfaces called sialic acids. Birds have an abundance ...

Typically, these flu viruses enter our cells by binding to sugar molecules, called sialic acids, on the surfaces of cells.

For example, bi-, tri-, and tetra-antennary structures are produced with complex-type branches consisting predominantly of the disaccharide Galβ1,4 GlcNAc capped by a terminal sialic acid residue.

As many as four molecules of a particular sugar called sialic acid may get snapped into place as final links on an IgG molecule's branching sugar chains. How many actually do can make a big ...