Krber Prize to ETH Zurich Professor Seeberger
...the body in order to attack them: cancer-producing helicobacter bacteria attach themselves to the glycans in the gastric mucous membrane; flu viruses bind to the glycans on the lungs. Vaccine to come In order to develop a carbohydrate-based vaccine, researchers must first determine which glycans are typical for...Scientists find molecular pathway suspected in precancerous stomach lesions
...to the stomach lining, such as from acid reflux or helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infections, might reactivate the newly found signaling pathway but in this situation it would work in the opposite direction. As a result, the lining reverts to a more generic intestinal type of cells that form cancer-prone lesion...