Re:From the Bretton Woods system to global stagnation [pdf]
by pfdietz on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @08:16AM
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Example of something that was a proto-invention in the 1970s and widely available now: monoclonal antibodies.
You know those pregnancy tests one can buy in the drug store? Based on MABs. Ditto those COVID tests. The Nobel-prize winning work that first created MABs occurred in the 1970s, but no product was available to consumers then.
You know those pregnancy tests one can buy in the drug store? Based on MABs. Ditto those COVID tests. The Nobel-prize winning work that first created MABs occurred in the 1970s, but no product was available to consumers then.
MABs are ubiquitous in medicine now.