Monoclonal antibodies come of age, and passive immunity treatments come around

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Monoclonal antibodies, antibodies that are made from a single cell line and that bind to a specific part of a specific antigen, are much more precise than polyclonal antibodies, but they are more expensive and difficult to make. However, a new system of isolating antibodies from human patients has been used to create a library of immune proteins. So far, things seem to be going well. This could open the door for what researchers are calling "passive immunity

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Best way to make antibodies

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Making antibodies is necessary for the treatment of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, pneumococcal pneumonia and anthrax. But the tradional methods of making antibodies is inefficienct, and now in this article proposes a new process for the extraction and copying of the essential elements of cells that make human antibodies. It may serve as a shortcut to making targeted, infection-fighting proteins known as monoclonal antibodies.

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Microarray for serotyping of Bartonella species

crackpot submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.biomedcentral.com)

“They demonstrated that microarray of spotted bacteria can be a practical tool for serotyping of unidentified strains and also for affinity determination of polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies that could be used in research and for identification of bacterial strains.”

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