Plastic antibody works in first tests in living animals

Scientists are reporting the first evidence that a plastic antibody -- an artificial version of the proteins produced by the body's immune system to recognize and fight infections and foreign substances -- works in the bloodstream of a living animal. The discovery, they suggest, is an advance toward medical use of simple plastic particles custom tailored to fight an array of troublesome "antigens."

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