Why are asymmetrical shapes more difficult to isolate than the symmetrical shapes?
Why don't reporters think to answer such 'why' questions or, if not known, at least tell us that no one knows why?
Don't they teach them the "who, what, when, where, why" rule? If they are trying to inform, we shouldn't have to do the work they were hired to do. I come away from many scientific articles with "why"?
That's a basic question, but this stuff, carbohydrate chemistry, is not simple.
"The latest strategy 'is practical as a powerful tool in glycobiology', he says, adding that Boons and his colleagues have demonstrated 'more convincingly' a strong candidate strategy for constructing a library of complex glycans."
Glycobiology and glycoscience are relatively new terms for describing how simple and complex sugars modify proteins. Getting the exact structure of various macromolecules is no mean feat. IMHO, the biggest payoffs could be in diagnostic tests in microbiology and immunology.