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It was enlightening to learn that to further increase the diversity and functioning of proteins, sugar groups are added (glycosylation) to our proteins at specific organelles within the human cell (think, Golgi apparatus, endoplasmic reticulum). Historically, proteins were studied first as they were more readily purified, then in the 1990s, decoding our genome took precedence in research funding. What is the next key funding target?



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