Glycobiology and Drug Design

During the past several years, it has become increasingly clear that carbohydrates, which can be targeted to specific diseases, represent a whole new dimension in drug design. Characterized by a variety of terms - specific recognition, lectins, and molecular diversity, just to cite a few - this new dimension based on carbohydrates essentially has introduced a new language to chemistry, biochemistry, and related disciplines. Vocabulary has been building so fast, in fact, that most professional…