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And yet, it may be one of the single biggest reasons why
biologics fail immunologically.

Because even when the protein is perfect, the sugars can
sabotage it.

And until we design with that in mind—until we treat
glycosylation as an immune signal, not a structural
afterthought—we will keep producing therapies that lose to
tolerization before they ever had a chance to last.

The immune system reads more than the label. It reads the
whole molecule.
And if the sugars don’t add up, the therapy never stood a
chance.

Step 6: The AI Solution

Obviously, we have huge problems here.

Biologics are sensitive.

Not just to formulation or storage—but to the environment
in which they’re made. Temperature. Light. Humidity. Soil
nutrients. Oxygen gradients. Even subtle differences in
airflow or bioreactor geometry can shift a cell’s behavior.
In a traditional stainless-steel facility, these variables are
aggressively controlled—but not eliminated. And in plant-
based systems, they are even more nuanced: leaves don’t
grow in vacuum-sealed sterility. They grow in light and
water and weather.

That variability has long been the Achilles’ heel of
alternative biologic production.

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