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Sugars tied to the spot

Nature volume 421, pages 219–220 (2003)Cite this article

The interactions of sugars and proteins underlie many biological processes, and cataloguing them is a daunting task. A technique for attaching sugars to microarrays offers a promising, high-throughput solution.

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Figure 1: Making a microarray of sugars.
Figure 2: Putting the sugar-microarray technique4 to the test.

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