Antibody

Antibodies are critical reagents applied in multiple biological areas, such as scientific research, therapeutics, and diagnosis. High-quality and reliable antibody reagents are the foundation of good assay performance. To learn more generating and validating critical antibody reagents join this free event hosted by DDW and supported by Sino Biological. It will take place on 16 […]

Twist Bioscience has acquired Abveris, which will offer Twist comprehensive antibody discovery and characterisation services using its DiversimAb family of hyperimmune mouse models, the output of which can be humanised using the Twist antibody optimisation solution to develop biologics for rapid clinical advancement.   Emily Leproust, CEO and co-founder of Twist Bioscience, believes that the addition of the Abveris discovery platform is a “natural fit” with Twist, as […]

The latest free-to-listen DDW podcast episode is titled “The important role that antibodies play in drug discovery”. It covers two articles written for Volume 22, Issue 2 – Spring 2021 of the Drug Discovery World Magazine, narrated by DDW’s Megan Thomas.  These articles are titled: “Antibody therapeutics: the other race for immunity against SARS-CoV2” and “Synthesising new […]

Medical research charity LifeArc and the MND Association have established a £1 million joint translational research fund to support researchers developing treatments for Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Despite recent advances, there is still no effective clinical treatment for MND. Each organisation is contributing £500,000 to the fund. Researchers from across the UK and the Republic […]

Immunotherapy has the potential to treat a wide variety of conditions, from autoimmune disease to cancer. However, the discovery of potential antibody therapeutics against key receptor proteins remains a major challenge for the traditional immunisation approaches currently available on the market. Twist Biopharma, an arm of Twist Bioscience, was built to overcome this bottleneck by […]

Using theoretical models of bacterial metabolism and reproduction, scientists can predict the type of resistance that bacteria will develop when they are exposed to antibiotics. This has now been shown by an Uppsala University research team, in collaboration with colleagues in Cologne, Germany. The study is published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. In […]

A team of researchers has found disrupting the interaction between cancer cells and certain immune cells is more effective at killing cancer cells than current immunotherapy treatments. The findings, which include studies in cell lines and animal models, appeared in JCI Insight and focus on a protein called CD6 as a target for a new […]

Antiverse, a biotechnology company developing a computational antibody drug discovery platform, has raised seed funding totalling £1.4 million ($2 million USD), comprising new investment and match funding from the UKI2S Innovate Accelerator. The funding will be used to further develop Antiverse’s AI antibody drug discovery platform, which rapidly and accurately predicts antibody-antigen binding to identify […]

LSBio, a provider of antibodies and life science research reagents, has acquired UK-based Absolute Antibody, its sister company Kerafast. LSBio provides IHC-validated reagent antibodies and services to the global community of academic, pharmaceutical and biotech researchers. The company has built a catalogue of more than 750,000 reagent antibodies, assay kits, proteins, and biochemicals, and its […]

Researchers from the University of Oxford have published further data from the Phase I/II clinical trials of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 coronavirus vaccine, evidencing the decision to move to a two-dose regimen in ongoing Phase III trials, and how ChAdOx1 nCov-19 is induces broad antibody and T cell functions. These findings are reported in two papers, […]