Antibodies

[Tero]

Antibodies are in the news quite a bit due to the virus. Vaccines are related to T cells and B celks as well. It's complicated.

I decided to look up how drugs like Humira are made. It has a specific target, but the procedure is the same. A cancerous blood cell line is used so that they can be grown in cell culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclonal_antibody

Humira
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalimumab

[Tero]

Eli Lilly peddling antibody:
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/09/16/cor ... tment.html
This would be given to people already sick. Relies on the RNA/other test. Unusual situation for a virus.