Current interest in glycolipid-based drugs started with work by a Japanese beer company. In the early 1990s, chemists at Kirin Brewery isolated a family of glycolipid natural products called ...

Glycolipids, basically "fatty sweet" molecules, are a relatively unknown group of lipids. A new method developed by an Austrian team led by chemist Evelyn Rampler of the University of Vienna has now ...

Sensors that selectively detect glycolipids—molecules that are involved in infection, inflammation, and cancer progression—are hard to make. Most sensors target either the hydrophilic sugar head group ...