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For the first time, researchers showed that molecules called antibodies non biological plastics can work like a natural antibody.

In tests on animals, plastic particles bind and neutralize toxins found in bee stings, toxins and antibodies and then washed to the liver, the same path through which the natural antibody.

The researchers are now developing antibodies to various targets in the plastic sphere more extensive disease in the hope of expanding the availability of antibody therapy, which is currently very expensive.

For more than 20 years, biochemists have attempted to mimic the ability of antibodies “to zero” in their targets, as part of a strategy to make more effective, less expensive therapies, and diagnostics.

“The antibody currently produced on an industrial scale this time is very important because they are so very expensive,” said Kenneth Shea, professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, in Technology Review.

That’s because the antibodies are grown in animals; their complex molecules that can not be made in a test tube, or even by bacteria. And an antibody, like other proteins, is very fragile. Even under refrigeration, they only hold a few months.

Shea’s and other questions within 20 years, he said, “whether it is possible to be designed to be cheap, starting materials a biotic?” Antibodies can be made cheap plastic and then placed on a shelf, in theory, survive for years.
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