It's not unreasonable to believe that, while carbohydrates themselves may not be particularly immunogenic, their conjugation to an appropriate multivalenced structure may work well.

It is, effectively, the opposite of so-called brandalism which is where advertisers have no control over how, where and when their branded communication is sabotaged. For example, billboards in New York for Apple's iPod music player were defaced by one disgruntled customer with the words iPod's unreplaceable battery lasts only 18 months after he discovered it would cost more to buy a new battery than to purchase a new iPod.

Forcipate and incudate trophi function in grasping.

But in recent years, a group of fringe scientists aided by defense industry insiders has convinced the Pentagon that America's post-9/11 survival depends on developing an isomer bomb. While proponents compare it to the Manhattan Project, opponents point out that independent researchers have not been able to duplicate the results attained by isomer enthusiasts, and that many assumptions behind the bomb contradict the laws of physics. Though Congress canceled isomer bomb development in 2004, the Department of Energy found $5 million to continue the research.