Uses of Monoclonal Antibodies

• Diagnosis in pregnancy tests
• In labs to measure hormone levels and other chemicals in blood, or to detect pathogens
• In research to locate or identify specific molecules in a cell or tissue by binding them to fluorescent dye
• To treat some diseases:

  • for cancer, the monoclonal antibody can be booing to a radioactive substance, a toxic grig or a chemical which stops cells growing and dividing. IT delivers the substance to the cancer cells without haring any other cells in the body
• Monoclonal antibodies create more side effects than expected. They are not yet as widely used as everyone hoped when they were developed.