Fall antibody validation workshop to convene academic and industry leaders; new online dialogue will crowdsource ideas and inform workshop discussions and outcomes
The university researchers, whose work began more than a decade ago, engineered a high-affinity, "sticky" antibody fragment that binds to the anthrax toxin
Problem: Nearly 40 years after its introduction, western blotting continues to be a powerful method for protein quantitation. Arguably, finding the right antibody to detect the protein of interest is the technique’s most critical and challenging step.