Hybridoma cells can both make a specific antibody and divide. The hybridoma cells are cloned to make a large number of ... Scientists combine mouse B lymphocytes which have been stimulated to make a particular antibody with a type of tumour cell to ... Healthy cells are not affected at all. In contrast conventional drug treatment is carried all around the body in the blood and ... Diagnosis of disease - monoclonal antibodies can be made which bind to specific antigens on blood clots or on cancer cells. The ...
1980 Louise Clarke and John Carbon clone a gene involved in cell division in yeast cells. ... Researchers persuaded human stem cells to form functional pancreatic beta cells - the cells which produce insulin and which are ... 2007 Japanese scientists produce induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from adult skin cells for the first time. This has ... A modified virus is used to carry the healthy gene for a particular enzyme into the cells of a woman with a very weak immune ...