What the sugar coating on your cells is trying to tell you | Carolyn Bertozzi

Your cells are coated with sugars that store information and speak a secret language. What are they trying to tell us? Your blood type, for one -- and, potentially, that you have cancer. Chemical biologist Carolyn Bertozzi researches how sugars on cancerous cells interact with (and sometimes trick) your immune system. Learn more about how your body detects cancer and how the latest cancer-fighting medicines could help your immune system beat the disease.

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[quimicauis]

Carolyn Bertozzi has explained so very, very well because her presentation showed every detail that is necesary to see...was really good....thank so much for this contribution.

[sanjay.cerilla]

And she is now - winning a Nobel Prize in Chemistry! <3

[MrTomEdo]

Another fascinating and potentially very impactful discovery. Great job!

[_Longwinded]

It’s my 22 bday, and I was watching her noble ceremony video and as a birthday surprise I got to learn about this Sugar Coating this easily. Thank You 🙏

[Pierluigi]

Explayned soo well! Awesome job ti Carolyn Bertozzi

[ChandravijayAgrawal]

don't waste your time by scrolling down

[thomaslangley]

Thankyou for your work. What fantastic results. Think of the people you will have helped save in the years to come.

[grahampalmer]

Good talk. Very informative. Beautifully explained.

[croppedhair_]

And the lady got a Nobel Prize five years later❤️

[samsutter]

But I still have an issue in understanding that how the drugs that destroy sugar coating on cells would be able to differentiate between healthy and cancerous cells. I think there needs to be further research on this topic but this is a great discovery I believe and is going to be really important in finding the ultimate cure.

[servant]

the suger we eat is related to this one she mentioned or not? She didn't tell us what we could do

[quikdrawcollins]

She's a really good speaker, well done Mrs. Bertozzi

[ikenray]

Unfortunately, cancer cells, during the acquisition of the malignant fenotype, can develop an important adaptation, hiding themselves from the immune system. The can, for example, mask or change specific glucidic groups from the outer layer of the plasme membrane.

[matildarojas]

If the Sialic acid does not come from the sugar that we consume, is there a way to dicrease it's amount by our own actions and life style ? Or is it just medication that can achieve it ?

[heitormb]

That one was a really good talk, congrats

[katy]

Is there a possibility that the drug will remove sialic acid from healthy cells as well? What would be result if that happens?

[ChandravijayAgrawal]

it is very interesting to know more about this

[dvl]

this is really fascinating, how about the reverse? treating autoimunne diseases when healthy cells are being targeted?
I guess it probably has to do with the sugar problem as well
this is so interesting

[waveforms]

I've heard that if you consume Aloe you up your amount of the sugar mannose which helps cells communicate (as it's one of the surface sugars) and therefore facilitates the healing process. Is that true?

[انكلشاسهلمعساره]

I had many abstacles in my life, but didn't giving up and work hard every time and I succeded in the end