The February 2003 ‘Technology Review’, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has in this months issue (Feb. 2003) a FRONT PAGE article on the ten emerging technologies that are predicted to change the world in the near future, by having such a tremendous influence upon our lives.
These are completely new technologies that could soon transform computing, medicine, manufacturing, transportation, and our energy infrastructure. For each, we’ve chosen a researcher or research team whose work and vision is driving the field. The profiles, on the following pages, offer a sneak preview of the technology world in the years and decades to come.
The Scripps Research Institute Professor Featured in Technology Review as Industry Pioneer in Glycomics is Professor James Paulson, Ph.D. The field Paulson represents, "glycomics," [Glyconutrients] is the scientific pursuit of identifying and studying all of the carbohydrate molecules produced by an organism such as a human or mouse. Like proteomics, the study of all the proteins produced by an organism, glycomics is important for unravelling the mysteries of the recently solved human genome because more than half of all the proteins in the human body have carbohydrate[glyconutrients]moleculesattached.
Unlike proteins, which are produced for the most part from a single template, carbohydrates are made by a cascade of chemical reactions inside our bodies. The complex, branched structures of carbohydrates have prevented the development of efficient and routine methods that are key to unravelling the rich information content and biological roles of sugar molecules," Paulson says. Paulson's "Consortium for Functional Glycomics" promises to change that by bringing together a large group of scientists from leading academic centres across the country.
“The Consortium will dramatically accelerate progress in understanding the roles of carbohydrates (glyconutrients) in cell communication and lead to novel therapeutic approaches for treatment of human disease."
Mannatech products are at the cutting edge of nutritional science. Now that MIT has agreed that the study of these essential glyconutrients will change the world.
Mannatech leads the world in this amazing new field.
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