Little Rock, AR - July 28, 2015 - (Newswire.com)
Absolute Antibody, a manufacturer on the Labscoop platform since 2014, was recently mentioned in the journal Nature for their innovative, cost saving, and animal free production processes. The company achieves this through the use of proprietary vectors (pUV™), transient transfection of a high-yielding mammalian cell line (ABS293™) and a universal purification platform. In this way hundreds of mgs can be produced within two weeks. This production platform also makes Antibody Engineering possible eg rapid species- or isotye-reformatting as well as generation of unusual formats like Fc Silent™, bi-specific antibodies, recombinant Fab and F(ab’)2 fragments AbFab2™.
“For most researchers antibody engineering was an unaffordable dream – a privilege reserved for Big Pharma” explains Nick Hutchings, CEO of Absolute Antibody, “what we are doing is making these services and the resulting wealth of products available to researcher working on a normal budget, who wish to push their research beyond the limitations of classically manufactured antibodies. Being based in the UK, we initially had mainly European customers, but thanks to Labscoop we have been able to increase our presence on the US market and now ship products to all corners of the States." The Absolute Antibody product line joins an already impressive line-up of nearly 5,000,000 products available on Labscoop.
About Absolute Antibody:
Absolute Antibody Ltd was founded Oxford, UK, in August 2012, with the vision that all antibody users should be able to use recombinant antibodies, which are defined by their amino acid sequence. This view gained support in 2015 with a comment in Nature magazine by Bradbury and Pluckthun (+110 co-signatories) – “Reproducibility: Standardize antibodies used in research“. Rather than creating entirely new antibodies (or antibody-like molecules), we are building a catalog by taking existing antibodies (often from hybridomas) then manufacturing them in a superior way and improving their usefulness by engineering.
About Labscoop:
Labscoop was founded in early January 2014, set on a path that will fundamentally change the way scientists shop for lab reagents, consumables, and equipment. Our company strives to create an amazing user experience for scientists with in-depth product peer reviews, comprehensive product specifications and associated data files that will allows scientists to quickly and easily search, compare and order products thus simplifying the lab procurement process. (Watch the video)
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Original Source: Labscoop Introduces Affordable Antibody Engineering to the United States
