Producing Synthetic Antibody Substitutes.(Brief Article)

Publication: USA Today (Magazine)

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Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have come up with a method that may lead to the long-hoped-for efficient and inexpensive production of synthetic antibody substitutes for use in medical diagnostics, biotechnology, and biomedical research. (Antibodies recognize and then bind tightly to foreign substances, or antigens, in...

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