Engineered Antibodies

[EddMarkStarr]

Technology is advancing into biology like the plot of a science fiction movie.
The University of Washington - UW Medicine - Institute for Protein Design.
David Baker, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year, is researching the molecular design of proteins and using A.I. to build antibodies.
This could be the start of a new antibody/protein drug industry!

 

[FrodoTX]

MAGA will be against it.

 

[unloadonme]

There was an interesting story in the news yesterday concerning gene therapy for Hunter Syndrome. I'd never heard of it before, but untreated sufferers can die before 20. I'll post a link. Hope that's permitted because the little boy being treated is only three.

Hunter syndrome: Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy

Oliver has an inherited condition called Hunter syndrome, which causes progressive damage to the body and brain.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Medical technology continues to outpace the ability of medical insurance to pay for treatments.
Each new miracle carries a price tag that the health care industry stays quiet about.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Wait man!

Weren't they going to do MAB's in the early nineties? Even Martha Stewart seems to have been invited involved.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Wait man!

Weren't they going to do MAB's in the early nineties? Even Martha Stewart seems to have been invited involved.

Yes indeed, but this new technique creates "designer" antibodies from scratch - totally unique from existing antibodies.