It's likely to target existing drugs that are only mildly effective and could benefit from its glycosylation technology.

FORBES: Pharma's Little Helper

GlycoFi's technology is based on a library of yeast strains that have been engineered to attach sugar structures to proteins--a process known as glycosylation.

FORBES: Pharma's Little Helper

So understanding the process (glycosylation, to give its proper name) is an important task, and Robert Linhardt, of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, and his colleagues, hope to contribute by building an artificial Golgi apparatus.

ECONOMIST: An attempt to mimic part of a cell on a chip