After the structure of the antibody molecule was known, questions remained, she told me - but they would be worked out by others, not by him.

He gestured to a brightly colored picture of the antibody molecule on the wall of his office.

One would like an antibody molecule that binds the transition state of a reaction.

This rough calculation is probably too high by several orders of magnitude, even for antibody molecules.

The Fc portion of the antibody molecule is not involved in the binding process.

Without his work we may still be years behind our current understanding of the antibody molecule.

The technique allows the antibody molecules to be aimed at specific disease sites in the body.

"Most if not all of the antibody molecules would be screwed up," he said.

However, only relatively small regions on antibody molecules are involved in the recognition and inactivation of pathogens.

"If you look at an antibody molecule, most of the structure is unrelated to target binding, so why have it at all?"