The applications of peptides and antibodies to multiple targets have emerged as powerful
tools in research, diagnostics, vaccine development, and therapeutics. Antibodies are …

Synthetic peptides have been shown to be valuable tools for viral laboratory diagnosis and
can provide uniform, chemically well-defined antigens for antibody analysis, reducing inter …

In recent years, research has shown the importance of peptides in neuroscience,
immunology, and cell biology. Active research programs worldwide are now engaged in …

Antibody drugs became an increasingly important element of the therapeutic landscape.
Their accomplishment has been driven by many unique properties, in particular by their very …

Molecular engineering has contributed immensely to the clinical success of antibodies in
recent years. The modular structure of antibodies has permitted their modification in …

Proteins are effective immunogens for generation of antibodies. However, occasionally the
native protein is known but not available for antibody production. In such cases synthetic …

Despite the fact that they have been used for a century to treat several kinds of diseases,
peptides and short proteins are now considered the new generation of biologically active …

During the next decade or so, there will be significant and impressive advances in
biomolecular engineering, especially in our understanding of the biological roles of various …

Antibodies have been the paradigm of binding proteins with desired specificities for more
than one century and during the past decade their recombinant or humanized versions have …

As potential therapeutics, peptides offer several advantages over small molecules
(increased specificity) and antibodies (small size). Nevertheless, a number of key issues …