Calico Biolabs28 Jan 2019 20:25
It was announced today that my favourite biotech investment bought Calico Biolabs.
http://www.calicobio.com/
I am reluctant to copy and paste but will make an exception - Calico focus on the custom rabbit monoclonal antibodies:
While traditional methods require termination of the animal to harvest the splenocytes, our method only requires routine blood draws; allowing us to collect samples over a time course, throughout the full immune response rather than at a single time point. Our method also allows for higher stability, flexibility, and ease of scaleability than traditional methods, while entirely avoiding the issue of post-translational modification variations when cloning antibodies from hybridomas. In addition, this method has been successful in other vertebrate species, such as chicken, goat, llama, and camel.