Editorial: Antibodies and other biopharmaceuticals
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example in the special issues on biotech in China, Russia and Singapore [4–6]), several aspects of antibodies as therapeutics are addressed in this issue of BTJ. Ruuls et al. review a new class of antibody therapeutics: the age of the Umabs [7]. Zhou et al. review modern production technologies [8] and Garidel et al. report on a rapid, sensitive and economical assessment of monoclonal antibody conformational stability by intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence spectroscopy [9]. These three papers are a good attempt to get quick insights into the challenge of antibody processing.
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