Lets Make America the Country That Cures Cancer Once and For All – During the 2016 State of the Union Address, President Obama called attention to a myriad of issues currently plaguing Americans. One of the many initiatives President Obama...
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February 2016: The Antibody Update – The Cancer Moonshot Patrick Soon-Shiong, a billionaire entrepreneur of pharmaceutical companies, had met with Vice President Biden in 2015 about the moonshot of curing cancer. This year, the entrepreneur has gathered several drug makers...
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The Antibody Basics Series: Table of Contents – Not too long ago, we published The 5 A’s of Antibodies infographic, which provides a brief explanation of all what goes into the process of generating custom antibodies against specific targets. Our...
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A Brief Introduction to PD-1 Antibodies and Immunotherapy – President Jimmy Carter’s cancer remission was wonderful news, but as some outlets 1 noted, it is important to understand that not all patients are responding as well to similar treatments, and...
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Multiple Sclerosis Antibody May Be Linked to JC Virus Infection Multiple sclerosis patients taking Natalizumab showed an increase in the number of cases of the neurodegenerative John Cunningham virus (JCV). JCV can cause a fatal brain disease. Natalizumab is a...
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December 2015: The Antibody Update – Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics Conference Highlights The Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics conference held in San Diego was a fantastic exchange of knowledge between all the participants. One of the many topics that stuck out...
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Bacteria with Resistance to Polymyxins, the Last Form of Antibiotics, Have Been Found in China Strains of E. coli that are resistant to polymyxin class antibiotics have been found in both pigs and citizens in China. Polymyxins were the last...
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An article published by Nature earlier this year pointed out that researchers now have to worry about the reproducibility of production antibodies. The fact of the matter is that off-the-shelf antibodies from large distributors can be unreliable tools, often functioning...
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Antibody development is multi-faceted process that begins with the target to which you wish to develop antibodies against: the antigen. To elicit an immune response we must select the appropriate adjuvant to be mixed with the antigen for immunization. Which...
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October 2015: The Antibody Update – Antibody Against an Alzheimer’s Associate Protein Presented at the 2015 Society for Neuroscience Conference At the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference in Chicago, an abstract was presented by a Harvard research team about an...
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