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Here's what I tried:

mySource = app.documents[0].textFrames.item('MainStory').parentStory;
myTarget = app.documents[0].textFrames.item('Target').parentStory.tables.item(0);

curAnt = "";
curClone = "";
curFormat = "";
colName = "";

theLim = mySource.paragraphs.length;

// top loop looks only for Antigens
// needs to skip over continuations
for (i=0;i<theLim; i++){
 if (mySource.paragraphs[i].appliedParagraphStyle.name == "inline8pts"){
  // potential antigen
  mySourcePara = mySource.paragraphs[i];
  myAntFrame = mySourcePara.characters[0].textFrames[0];
  mySubStory = myAntFrame.parentStory;
  myAnt = mySubStory.paragraphs[0].contents;
  antLen = myAnt.length;
  if (myAnt.charAt(antLen-1) == "\r"){
   antLen = antLen - 1;
   }
  myAnt = myAnt.substring(0,antLen)
  if (myAnt != curAnt){
   // we have a new antigen, so add a new row to the table
   // and get the name into the first column
   addAntigen(i);
  }
 }
}

function addAntigen(i){
 // first, add a row to the table
 myTarget.rows.add(LocationOptions.atEnd);
 myTempFrame = myAntFrame.duplicate();
}

I'm deliberately using global variables, so myAntFrame should be available to the function. I get a message that the item is locked. But it's not and neither is the layer that it's on. The only thing I can think is that it's an inline frame. I guess I was expecting that this would produce a freestanding duplicate on the same page, but now I think about it, that was rather optimistic.

OK, time to use a library.

Dave