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February 05, 2015

No more money and time down the drain say antibody experts in Nature
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 05, 2015
In the latest issue of Nature, a worldwide group of antibody experts appeal for a standardised approach to the creation and use of antibodies in research and therapeutics. While it might cost roughly $US1billion to "generate characterized recombinant binding reagents to target the products of all human genes", this would "probably be less than what is wasted worldwide on bad reagents in two or three years", says Dr Andrew Bradbury from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the lead author ... read more

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