At some point in their careers, most bench biologists will have to order antibodies for their experiments, and Glenna Burmer has a warning for them. “The world of commercial antibodies is the ...

All three antibodies demonstrate expected enrichment ... Antibody specificity is essential to obtaining robust reproducible data and drawing appropriate biological conclusions.

Antibodies bind to specific antigens on pathogens. This means that only one type of antibody will bind to a matching antigen. For example, an antibody that can recognise an antigen on the ...