Monoclonal antibody
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A monoclonal antibody is an antibody produced from a cell lineage made by cloning a unique white blood cell. All subsequent antibodies derived this way trace back to a unique parent cell.
Looking at slides of cultures of cells that make monoclonal antibodies
Monoclonal antibodies can be grown in unlimited quantities in flasks.
Hand-filling wells with a liquid for a research test. This test involves preparation of cultures in which hybrids are grown in large quantities to produce desired antibody. This is effected by fusing a myeloma cell and a mouse lymphocyte to form a hybrid cell (hybridoma).
Bathing prepared slides in a solution
Hybridoma technology
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Hybridoma technology is a method for producing large quantities of monoclonal antibodies by fusing antibody producing B cells with myeloma cells. This creates hybrid cells, hybridomas, that produce th
Hybridoma cells grown in tissue culture. The image shows a single clone of cells each of which is producing large amounts of a specific monoclonal antibody which the cells secrete and which can be readily purified from the culture media.
