Monoclonal Antibodies

Monoclonal Antibodies and their uses in Science

• Plasma Cells are all identical copies of a B-cells
• these antibodies will have a specific complementary shape to bind to a particular antigen
• This is useful to science, because it means you can get monoclonal antibodies to bind to a specific thing - targeting the cells that you are interested in --

Examples of this in Science:

• Targeting Cancer Cells - these are tumours and they have antigens on their surface called 'Tumour Markers'
• Monoclonal antibodies can be produced which bind to tumour markers and you can attach anti-cancer drugs to these antibodies

• So when they bind together…