Zebra Biologics Inc.
Finding functional antibodies fast, even agonists
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Zebra Biologics Inc. has a new way of creating antibodies that allows huge numbers of candidates to be quickly identified through a functional assay, using lentivirus to transfect an autocrine human cell line specially engineered to change color if anything (presumably the encoded fragment) activates a given receptor.