Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology
Volume
25
Issue
4
First Page
234
Last Page
241
PubMed ID
33794117
Publisher
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Publishers
School
School of Medical and Health Sciences
RAS ID
35935
Abstract
A key lesson emerging from COVID-19 is that pandemic proofing planetary health against future ecological crises calls for systems science and preventive medicine innovations. With greater proximity of the human and animal natural habitats in the 21st century, it is also noteworthy that zoonotic infections such as COVID-19 that jump from animals to humans are increasingly plausible in the coming decades. In this context, glycomics technologies and the third alphabet of life, the sugar code, offer veritable prospects to move omics systems science from discovery to diverse applications of relevance to global public health and preventive medicine. In this expert review, we discuss the science of glycomics, its importance in vaccine development, and the recent progress toward discoveries on the sugar code that can help prevent future infectious outbreaks that are looming on the horizon in the 21st century. Glycomics offers veritable prospects to boost planetary health, not to mention the global scientific capacity for vaccine innovation against novel and existing infectious agents.
DOI
10.1089/omi.2021.0011
Comments
This is an Authors Accepted Manuscript version of an article published by Mary Ann Leibert in OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology.
Final publication is available from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/omi.2021.0011
Wang, X., Zhong, Z., & Wang, W. (2021). COVID-19 and preparing planetary health for future ecological crises: Hopes from glycomics for vaccine innovation. OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, 25(4), 234-241. https://doi.org/10.1089/omi.2021.0011