New guidelines to police ‘Wild West’ of antibody research
Validating antibodies used in experiments could ‘free up billions of research dollars’, head of standards institute says More than 100 biomedical research experts have met in the US to start developing the first-ever standardised guidelines for using antibodies in science. The differing quality of biological reagents – the chemicals used in experiments – such as antibodies, and the lack of standard approaches to research using them, is thought by many to play a major part in