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| The international conference on
hyaluronan, Hyaluronan 2003, was an exciting crossroad
demonstrating the exceptional importance of our favorite
molecule in many aspects of the biology of higher organisms
and some of our bacterial aggressors. This ensures that
there will continue to be new, cutting-edge chapters for
the foreseeable future in our Science of Hyaluronan website.
The website was initiated almost 6 years ago with the objective of summarizing the current status of different hyaluronan research areas in a form that would be accessible to a wide audience of researchers with diverse backgrounds. As is almost always the case, the current status of a novel, cutting edge research area advances into even newer, uncharted areas with additional time, and this is the case with a number of the contributions made to the website. Therefore, we have given the authors of the chapters from the first 2 years of the website an opportunity to prepare an Update. The intent of the Updates is to show what new things have happened in the interval between the original chapter and the present. The Updates will be placed immediately behind the original chapters in the website. We are very happy to initiate the Update series with two by Paul Weigel "Bacterial Hyaluronan Synthases" and Robert Stern "The Mammalian Hyaluronidases" we look forward to many more in the future. Vincent C. Hascall |
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