Japanese Start-Up Biotech To Use New Ways To Find Antibodies
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Japan's government laboratory and Chiome Bioscience, a startup associated with it, plan to find a new way to search for antibodies that could be developed into drugs and reagents for diagnostics. The procedure planned involves using magnetic beads to sift a pair of antibody-antigen reactions out of a solution using a magnet. The difference between the plan developed by the joint work of Chiome and the government lab Riken and previous methods is the use of a magnet to separate wanted antibodies from unwanted ones. (Click here for more - a subscription may be required