Monoclonal Antibodies

Monoclonal antibodies (MAb) are antibodies that are produced by a single plasma cell, making them perfectly identical. Their production is complex and often costly, whether in cell tissues or in living animals.

Monoclonal antibodies are sensitive, specific, and batch-to-batch reproducible. This makes them especially useful in the study of infectious, immunological, and neoplastic diseases where a highly precise, specific, and consistently available reagent is required.

Today, the discovery of molecular biology and genetic engineering techniques has expanded the horizon in the generation of monoclonal antibodies and their applications, leading to the development of techniques such as hybridization, chimerization, humanization, and the production of fully human monoclonal antibodies.