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Making antibodies from scratch

Synthesis and screening of a small library of antibody fragments yields promising hits.

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Figure 1: Strategy for the design, synthesis and screening of a spatially addressable library of antibody fragments.

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Love, J. Making antibodies from scratch. Nat Biotechnol 28, 1176–1178 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1110-1176

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