Enzymes, recombinant proteins, monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, viral vectors… Biological pharmaceutical products are essential for research and are increasingly present in human medicine, where they constitute a growing market; accelerated further with anti-covid vaccines, annual reports show Nature Reviews Drug Discovery .
But if their complexity is their strength, it is also their weakness. “The biomedical means are much larger molecules than chemical drugs, with hundreds or thousands of times more atomsexplains Bruno Marco-Dufort, PhD student in the laboratories of macromolecular engineering and organic chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. “So they are very complex products and their properties come from their structure. If something causes them to change their appearance…
Source: Le Figaro
