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Millipore’s “pure opportunity” increases with every biotechnology breakthrough and every new generation of semiconductor chip. Technically the pure opportunity is at the cellular and molecular and ionic level. From a larger perspective, the pure opportunity is with societal needs – for pure drugs, pure beverages, pure research, pure electronics. This year’s annual report takes a look at what we are purifying – and the impact of that purification on all kinds of people, from babies to sages and everyone in-between. |
  Computerized molecular model of an entire IgG Immunoglobulin molecule bound to a macromolecular antigen. |
Take monoclonal antibodies. These highly-specific proteins are used for quick determination of pregnancy and for promising new cancer therapies. There are now 74 monoclonal antibodies in pre-clinical and clinical stages of development. Millipore purification technologies are used in discovery, scale-up and manufacturing of monoclonals. And Millipore membrane is a substrate in most of the 100 million or so home pregnancy test kits used each year. An Immunoglobulin or IgG monoclonal is used in pregnancy test kits and a computer model of IgG is on the left. |
