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The antibody portion targets cancer cells, and once it arrives, the attached lectin can bind sialic acid.

From Science Daily • Dec. 23, 2025

Animals such as birds and humans have different docking stations on their cells — known as sialic acid receptors.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024

“The bacteria take those sugars and turn them into chemicals, like sialic acids, that are good for brain development.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2021

The spikes can be decorated with sialic acid sugars to enhance binding, or with antiviral compounds such as zanamivir.

From Scientific American • Oct. 15, 2021

Two preprints suggest the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, also docks with sialic acids before binding with the ACE2 receptor to pierce human cells.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 24, 2020