hey, for the anon asking about monoclonal antibodies (from someone who recently did a biology gcse)
HOW THEY'RE MADE:
-> get a mouse. infect mouse with disease
-> mouse's lymphocytes (white blood cells) go 'ah fuck' and start making antibodies to kill off the disease
-> remove the lymphocytes from the mice. now you have yourself some cells that know how to make antibodies. isn't that cool?
-> the problem is lymphocytes aren't great at cell division and you kind of need a lot of antibodies!!
-> so you take the lymphocytes and you fuse them with some tumour cells
-> tumour cells are great at dividing. that's kind of their whole brand. so now you have tumour/lymphocyte hybrids that can make antibodies AND divide rapidly
-> so then you can let them do their thing and collect the antibodies they make :)
That is specifically murine mABs, but still useful information