October 2024

Trick or Treat: Unmasking Antibody Reproducibility in Life Sciences

2024-12-16T17:29:22-05:00October 1st, 2024|Webinars|

In this webinar, you will learn: How mAb irreproducibility could unknowingly impact your research outcomes Proven strategies to mitigate reproducibility risks when using research reagents The role of antibody sequencing in ensuring reproducibility with mAbs Rapid, cost-effective sequence confirmation for routine applications The next frontier: polyclonal antibody sequencing and recombinant pAbs [...]

August 2024

Antagonistic Antibodies: Opportunities and Obstacles

2024-12-02T13:27:16-05:00August 14th, 2024|Articles|

Written by: Jenna Kerry, MSc Published: August 14, 2024 Contents What are Antagonistic Antibodies? How do Antagonistic Antibodies Work? Antagonistic Antibody Opportunities Antagonistic Antibody Obstacles Antibody Discovery Platform for Antagonistic Antibodies What are Antagonistic Antibodies? Antagonistic antibodies are a monoclonal antibody that bind to and [...]

Sequence Variant Analysis of Monoclonal Antibodies

2024-08-09T14:29:53-04:00August 9th, 2024|Articles|

Written by: Genya Gorshtein, MSc Published: August 8, 2024 Contents Introduction What are Protein Sequence Variants Impact of Sequence Variants on Monoclonal Antibodies Challenges in Sequence Variant Analysis and Detection Sequence Variant Analysis Service Introduction Sequence variants are unwanted impurities in antibody and biotherapeutic [...]

Detecting and Preventing Disulfide Scrambling in Monoclonal Antibodies

2024-12-02T13:40:48-05:00August 6th, 2024|Articles|

Written by: Jenna Kerry, MSc Published: August 1, 2024 Contents Introduction Disulfide Bond Structure and Function in Monoclonal Antibodies Disulfide Scrambling in Monoclonal Antibodies Impact of Disulfide Bonds on Monoclonal Antibodies Strategies to Prevent Disulfide Scrambling in Monoclonal Antibodies Disulfide Bond Analysis for Monoclonal Antibodies Introduction [...]

June 2024

The Power of Recombinant Antibody Cocktails

2024-12-02T13:52:22-05:00June 10th, 2024|Articles|

Written by: Jenna Kerry, MSc Published: June 10, 2024 Contents Introduction Advantages of Recombinant Antibody Cocktails Recombinant Antibody Cocktail Formats Engineering Recombinant Antibody Cocktails Production of Recombinant Antibody Cocktails Recombinant Antibody Cocktail Applications Generate Antibody Cocktails with De Novo Antibody Sequencing Service Introduction Recombinant antibody [...]

May 2024

Ask Our Experts: Navigating Antibody Characterization through LC-MS

2024-07-12T09:51:00-04:00May 1st, 2024|Webinars|

In this webinar, you will… Learn the details of LC-MS based antibody characterization in early discovery and production pipelines Explore in-depth the analytical methodologies and strategies essential for comprehensive antibody characterization, covering post-translational modifications, glycan profiles, peptide mapping, and disulfide linkages Ask your burning questions and get expert guidance on navigating antibody [...]

February 2024

Antibody Production: A Guide to Choosing a Recombinant Expression System

2024-12-02T14:09:40-05:00February 2nd, 2024|Articles|

Written by: Jenna Kerry, MSc Published: February 2, 2024 Contents Introduction Recombinant Expression Systems Recombinant Expression of Polyclonal Antibodies Rapid Novor's Services Introduction Once antibody discovery, lead selection, and characterization is complete, researchers have a range of expression systems to choose from to produce the [...]

Maximizing Liquid Biopsy Sensitivity through the Power of DNA-Binding Antibodies

2024-04-24T10:33:09-04:00February 1st, 2024|Webinars|

In this webinar, you will learn: Non-Invasive Liquid Biopsies: Cell-free DNA as a key analyte for non-invasive liquid biopsies for cancer diagnosis and monitoring. Enhanced Cell-Free DNA Recovery: Strategies to improve cell-free DNA recovery, including the use of DNA priming agents like DNA-binding monoclonal antibodies. Fc-Domain Engineering: The process of engineering [...]

January 2024

October 2023

New Antibody Characterization Essentials from Discovery to Clinic

2024-04-24T10:34:49-04:00October 4th, 2023|Webinars|

In this webinar, you will learn: Workflows for antibody characterization that extend beyond the primary amino acid sequence How to leverage HDX-MS for epitope mapping and SPR for binding kinetics to understand the mechanism of action and maximize the effectiveness of your characterization efforts How to ensure high-quality antibody production with [...]

August 2023

Latest Advancements in Antibody Engineering – Bispecifics, Diagnostic Controls, and More

2024-04-24T10:35:04-04:00August 29th, 2023|Webinars|

In this webinar, you will learn: Antibody technologies for the design of unique antibody formats Advancements in engineering efforts for the development of functionally tailored antibodies, recombinant isotype antibody panels, and multivalent fragment antibody constructs Characterization of different bispecific antibody formats Next generation protein sequencing to aid in bispecific antibody design [...]

July 2023

Antibody Discovery Dead Ends and New Approaches

2024-12-03T12:39:28-05:00July 20th, 2023|Webinars|

In this webinar, you will learn: About the challenges commonly encountered in antibody discovery campaigns, including non-functional antibodies, limited diversity, developability issues, and immunogenicity. How to de-risk antibody discovery campaigns, while balancing speed and spend Discover how a proteomics and mass spectrometry-based approach to antibody discovery, utilizing REpAb polyclonal sequencing, presents [...]

June 2023

CAR-iNKT Cells Targeting Clonal TCRVβ Chains as a Precise Strategy to Treat T Cell Lymphoma

2024-06-10T12:48:41-04:00June 16th, 2023|Case Studies|

With 22 functional T cell receptor (TCR)Vβ subunit families making up the normal T cell repertoire, signals from these cell surface receptors often determine the fate of normal cells. However, mutations in TCR signaling proteins are frequently associated with peripheral T cell lymphomas (TCLs), including adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL), which indicates a driving role for TCRs in TCL oncogenesis. As TCL and ATL are clonal in nature, tumour cells typically express a single TCRVβ subunit with no bias in the usage of TCRVβ subunit families. Consequently, targeting the specific TCRVβ subunit presents a promising therapeutic approach that is highly selective and tumour-specific.

Tackling Reproducibility in Life Sciences with Protein Sequencing

2024-12-03T13:54:53-05:00June 2nd, 2023|Articles|

Written by: Genya Gorshtein, MSc Published: May 9, 2023 Contents Introduction Hybridoma Instability Leads to mAb Irreproducibility Batch-to-Batch Variation in Polyclonal Antibodies Antibody Sequencing and Recombinant Expression Ensures Reproducible Antibody Reagents Generating Reproducible Reagents with Rapid Novor Introduction Antibodies (Abs) are indispensable tools in [...]

May 2023

Rational Antibody Design and Engineering with Next Generation Protein Sequencing

2024-04-29T13:20:11-04:00May 9th, 2023|Webinars|

In this webinar, you will learn: A strategy for generating recombinant mAbs and antibody derivatives directed towards antigens involved in mitotic cell division Methods for antibody engineering and customization, species switching, and construction of antibody fragments How Next Generation Protein Sequencing (NGPS) works Applications of NGPS to aid engineering and recombinant production of [...]

April 2023

The Shortcut to Reliable Diagnostic, Control, and Assay Antibodies

2024-04-25T10:09:41-04:00April 5th, 2023|Webinars|

In this webinar, you will learn: IVD and immunoassays, supply chain risk management considerations How monoclonal and polyclonal antibody sequencing works, requirements Effective production, validation, and scale-up of recombinant antibody reagents Characterization of mAbs for assay design Abstract Polyclonal antibodies (pAbs) are well known for their robustness and [...]

April 2022

Generation and Diversification of Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies

2024-04-29T13:20:43-04:00April 22nd, 2022|Case Studies|

Monoclonal antibodies are essential reagents and research tools. They are commonly generated and produced in hybridoma cells and are expected to be highly consistent. However, the instability and fragility of hybridoma cells can cause unwanted mutations, additional chains, and permanent loss of important antibodies. On the other hand, the lack of standardization validation for commercial antibodies often keeps researchers in the dark leading to the reproducibility crisis. 

March 2022

January 2022

Recombinant Therapeutic pAbs are Now Possible

2024-04-24T10:58:06-04:00January 20th, 2022|Webinars|

Polyclonal antibodies are popular research reagents for their high sensitivity and robust cross-platform performance. But few companies consider them viable for therapeutic applications as they are almost impossible to characterize. Additionally, they suffer from a lack of reproducibility and limited supply. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) can be reliably characterized and produced for therapeutic applications, but are more costly to discover and develop. Rapid Novor’s REpAb technology can overcome these limitations by capturing the sequences of the most abundant IgG in a pAb and enabling indefinite antibody production. Here we report the first successful conversion of a goat polyclonal antibody into a cocktail of recombinant mAbs using only the pAb protein sample.

Recombinant Antibodies: A New Generation Enabled by Protein Sequencing

2024-12-03T11:01:29-05:00January 19th, 2022|Articles|

Recombinant antibodies are artificially synthesized antibodies. Recombinant antibodies are generated from expression systems (e.g., E.coli, yeast, mammalian cell lines) via transfection with two separate plasmids encoding the amino acid sequences for the light and heavy chains, respectively. In order to recombinantly produce mAbs, the amino acid sequence of the light and heavy chains must be known. There are many ways to obtain the sequence of an antibody.

September 2021

July 2021

April 2021

Non-Fungible Antibodies

2024-04-24T10:59:40-04:00April 20th, 2021|Webinars|

Other than a paucity in widespread use, such efforts still do not address the main issue: the uniqueness of antibodies. Unlike currency, antibodies are non-fungible. To manufacture a replica of a specific antibody, we must first know its sequence. Sometimes, scientists may obtain the sequence through nucleotide sequencing means.

September 2020

June 2016

Moving Towards Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies

2023-05-15T11:59:37-04:00June 30th, 2016|Articles|

Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies (rAbs) are highly reproducible, customizable and pure alternatives to the traditional antibodies produced by hybridomas. Get the antibody protein sequence, either by DNA sequencing or the de novo protein sequencing technology, you can rest assured that you can have the exact antibody made recombinantly anytime in the future.