ea0086pr1 | Antibodies and antibody mimics as pharmaceutical drugs | SFEBES2022
Winter Gregory
During the last century the conjunction of chemistry, structural biology and a molecular understanding of disease processes, was responsible for driving the widespread development of chemicals as pharmaceutical drugs. The development of biologicals (manufactured by cell fermentation) was much slower, and had to await the advent of recombinant DNA technology, and in the case of antibodies, of hybridoma technology. Antibodies have since become established as the paramount biolog...