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Essay On Biorapeutics

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The statement on this discussion board is currently not a fact, since while there are certain advantages for therapeutic use, the current limitations in implementation currently truncate the potential benefits. This said the potential for point of care diagnostic are rather obvious, and with more directed research these can change the way rapid detection test are designed. Sine 1989 when songsilviali and Lachmann described potential for multifaceted used of bispecific antibodies ( BsAbs) as a tool for diagnosis, and treatment of disease, we still face some of the manufacturing problems they did back then, even now with developments in both protein and genetic engendering production for therapeutic use is difficult. (SONGSIVILAI and …show more content…

This have been observed with anti EpCAM, the HER family CEA, and PSMA, while the final outcomes of clinical trials did not reach the expected levels of benefit, these show great potential, when better formats of BsAbs are designed, these can could become a very effective tool to treat this neoplasm (Yu et al., 2017).

When using BsAbs for diagnostics assays, a bsAb is devised with the availability to bind to a specific antigen and an identifying moiety such as horseradish peroxidase. this allows the bsAb to function as a cross-linker, between an antigen and reporter molecules all at once, In an immunoassay, a monospecific capture antibody is immobilized onto a solid surface and binds to the corresponding antigen in serum. The BsAb is then added to bind the captured antigen and a reporter molecule (Fan et al., 2015). This has allowed for the development of rapid diagnostic prototypes for POC detection of tuberculosis, using the bacteria cell wall antigen Lipoarabinomannan (LAM) (Sarkar et al., 2012), and have been successfully used in developing. Besides making diagnostic immunoassays rapid BsAbs enhance sensitivity and specificity of detection, while also greatly reducing, or in some instances eliminating the incidence of false positives. They also decrease background in immunohistochemistry, and bio imaging diagnostics (Kontermann, 2011).

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