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Re:Breakthrough drug trial saw cancer vanish in every patien... by pfdietz on Friday April 05, 2024 @05:39PM (#39947564)
-ab means it's an antibody. There are many kinds of antibodies, not just to those two proteins.
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Re:Breakthrough drug trial saw cancer vanish in every patien... by semi-extrinsic on Friday April 05, 2024 @06:04PM (#39947804)
And -mab means monoclonal antibody. But your point still stands, there is a huge number of -mab drugs out there today.
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Re:Breakthrough drug trial saw cancer vanish in every patien... by pfdietz on Friday April 05, 2024 @06:48PM (#39948209)
It's a really great technology, and not just for drugs. It deservedly won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1984.
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