chapter 1 Mammalian Glycosylation: An Overview of Carbohydrate Biosynthesis -- chapter 2 Patterning of Lectins of Vero and MDCK Cells and Influenza Viruses: The Search for Additional Virus/Cell Interactions / chapter 3 O-Acetyl Sialic Acids in Parasitic Diseases / chapter 4 Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation / chapter 5 Role of Milk Carbohydrates in Preventing Bacterial Adhesion / chapter 6 Structural Characterization of Glycosaminoglycans / chapter 7 Carrageenans: Structural and Conformational Studies / chapter 8 Computational Modeling in Glycosylation / chapter 9 Biosynthetic Pathways for Differential Expression of Functional Chondroitin Sulfate and Heparan Sulfate / chapter 10 Large-Scale Production of Oligosaccharides Using Engineered Bacteria / chapter 11 Fructan Biosynthesis in Genetically Modified Plants / chapter 12 Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) Glycosylation Mutants for Glycan Engineering / chapter 13 Biochemical Engineering of Sialic Acids / chapter 14 Glycosylation in Native and Engineered Insect Cells / chapter 15 N-Glycan Engineering in Yeasts and Fungi: Progress toward Human-Like Glycosylation / chapter 16 Bacterial Capsules: A Route for Polysaccharide Engineering / chapter 17 Chemo-Biological Approach to Modification of the Bacterial Cell Wall / chapter 18 Engineering Bacterial Biopolymers for the Biosorption of Heavy Metals / chapter 19 Treatment of Wastewaters with the Biopolymer Chitosan / chapter 20 The Role of Glycosylation in Engineered Antibodies / chapter 21 Recent Developments in the Synthesis of Oligosaccharides by Hyperthermophilic Glycosidases / chapter 22 Modification of Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides Using Enzymes from Aspergillus / chapter 23 β-Glucosidases from Filamentous Fungi: Properties, Structure, and Applications / chapter 24 Sialic Acids and Sialylmimetics: Useful Chemical Probes of Sialic Acid-Recognizing Proteins / chapter 25 Engineering Carbohydrate Scaffolds into the Side Chains of Amino Acids and Use in Combinatorial Synthesis / chapter 26 Effects of Short- and Long-Chain Fructans on Large Intestinal Physiology and Development of Preneoplastic Lesions in Rats / chapter 27 Alginate as a Drug Delivery Carrier / chapter 28 Chitosan-Based Nonviral Vectors for Gene Delivery / chapter 29 Polysaccharides in Tissue Engineering Applications