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27 October 2020BiotechnologyJoachim Wachenfeld and Florian Grasser

A stricter interpretation: the EPO and antibodies

The invention of the antibody hybridoma technology by Nobel prize winners Georges Köhler and César Milstein in 1975 paved the way to the development of therapeutic antibodies.

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