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Bispecific antibodies with native chain structure

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Two new methods overcome a major hurdle that blocked easy and efficient design and expression of human bispecific antibodies.

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Figure 1: Expression of human bispecific antibodies.

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  1. Romain Rouet & Daniel Christ are at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Medicine, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia.

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Rouet, R., Christ, D. Bispecific antibodies with native chain structure. Nat Biotechnol 32, 136–137 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2812

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