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How Understanding Sugar Can Help Treat Disease

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General descriptionWhen someone mentions sugars, the additive found in our sweet desserts immediately springs to mind. When studying how bacteria and viruses cause disease in humans, sugars hold a very different meaning. Like lights on a Christmas tree, every cell in a human body is decorated with sugars. The sugars act as a code, enabling cell-to-cell interaction and allowing the immune system to differentiate between our cells and foreign substances. Many bacteria and viruses exploit this sugar coat to cause infection. They possess structures that bind these sugars and gain entry into healthy cells. When they replicate, they can even disguise themselves from our immune system by displaying the human sugar coat on the surface. Understanding how and where bacteria and viruses interact with this human sugar coat is important in designing new strategies to prevent and treat disease. It could even help us fight heart disease and cancer.CreatorPreston NgDate created2014ContributorMarketing and CommunicationsPeople depictedPreston NgLanguageEnglishIs or was included inKnow More in 60 Seconds Video Series

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