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SCIENCE STUDIO: Sugars & Mucins

Case Western Reserve University

  Keith welcomes Thomas Gerken of Case Western Reserve University, Department of Pediatrics and Biochemistry, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology.  Gerken talks about the functions of sugars in our cells, and how the use of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is helping identify properties of mucins, or mucus, which are involved in all cell-to-cell interactions.  

Aired May 3, 2015.

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