Sugar Plays Key Role In How Cells Work

Friday, October 24, 2008 - 07:28 in Health & Medicine

Scientists were dubious in the early 1980s when they stumbled on small sugar molecules lurking in the centers of cells; not only were they not supposed to be there, but they certainly weren't supposed to be repeatedly attaching to and detaching from proteins, effectively switching them on and off.

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