Defined in the narrowest sense, glycobiology is the study of the structure, biosynthesis, and biology of saccharides (sugar chains or glycans) that are widely distributed in nature. society for glycobiology education resource Knowledge of Glycobiology can improve your health: Glycosylation glycosylation means enzymatic attachment of saccharides onto proteins, and glycation refers to exclusively non-enzymatic protein modification. Glycosylation is an important biological process that serves a number of key functions. These include, but are not limited to, proper protein folding, increased protein stability, and overall diversification of the proteome. It's a carefully regulated and essential process. It has been shown that the long-term products of glycation, so called advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs), accumulate in tissues of living organisms with age.The older we get, the more of these AGEs we seem to accumulate on our long-lived pr...