Industry hopes to build on recent successes of monoclonal antibodies in oncology and inflammatory disease. But evidence is mounting that the exquisite selectivity and binding capacity of these therapeutics can have unwanted side effects, particularly in autoimmune disease. Christopher Thomas Scott investigates.
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Scott, C. The problem with potency. Nat Biotechnol 23, 1037–1039 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0905-1037
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