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The lock and key of medicine : monoclonal antibodies and the transformation of healthcare

Marks, Lara, 1963- author

Overview

This book is the first to tell the extraordinary yet unheralded history of monoclonal antibodies. Often referred to as Mabs, they are unfamiliar to most nonscientists, yet these microscopic protein molecules are everywhere, quietly shaping our lives and healthcare. Discovered in the mid-1970s in the laboratory where Watson and Crick had earlier unveiled the structure of DNA, Mabs have radically changed understandings of the pathways of disease. They have enabled faster, cheaper, and more accurate clinical diagnostic testing on a vast scale. And they have played a fundamental role in pharmaceutical innovation, leading to such developments as recombinant interferon and insulin, and personalized drug therapies such as Herceptin. Today Mabs constitute six of the world's top ten blockbuster drugs and make up a third of new introduced treatments. -- From dust jacket.

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Subject: Antibodies, Monoclonal therapeutic use. / Antibodies, Monoclonal history. / Diffusion of Innovation. / Immunoconjugates therapeutic use. / Immunotherapy methods. / Monoclonal antibodies Therapeutic use. / Monoclonal antibodies Therapeutic use History.
• ISBN: 9780300167733, 0300167733

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
RM282.M65 M37 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE