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Published online 23 September 2008 | 455, 437 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455437a
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Monoclonal antibodies come of age
Biotechs look to 'passive immunity' therapies.
A fast way of isolating antibodies from people has been used to create a library of the immune proteins produced by someone inoculated with a nicotine-acting vaccine. Roger Beerli and his team at Cytos Biotechnology in Schlieren, Switzerland, used lymphocytes from an individual who was enrolled in a clinical trial of the smoking-cessation vaccine, and with their technique rapidly identified nicotine-specific antibodies1.
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