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Episode 61: Dr. Lance Wells on Glycobiology
October 6, 202523 min · 4,243 words
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The term “glycobiology” may be unfamiliar to many students, as it is an undertaught but extremely important field that is linked to nearly every facet of cellular biology. Glycobiology is the study of carbohydrates, also known as glycans. On this exciting episode of Let’s Talk Chemistry edited by David Alvia, hosts Erin Suh, Jasmine Winter, and Diya Garrepally dive into our interview with Dr. Lance Wells. Dr.
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We started with one family that we characterized biochemically and published. The latest is about 75 families now with mutations in OGT, and so it's an intellectual disability syndrome.
“sometimes as you get older, you have so much dogma that you've learned that young people will do experiments that I would never do. Because I'd be like, oh, that's not going to work. And they don't know that it shouldn't work”
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