Artificial antibodies hold biomedical promise

Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 00:30 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have developed a much faster and simpler way of making synthetic antibodies, by carrying out the usual steps in reverse. They have developed a technique for constructing peptide sequences, then linking them together to form a synthetic antibody, or synbody, that can bind with one or more protein molecules contained in the vast repository of human proteins -- the proteome.

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