B6 Preventing and treating disease

Question 1

clinical trials

Answer 1

test potential new drugs on healthy and patient volunteers

Question 2

hybridomas

Answer 2

cells created during the production of monoclonal antibodies by the fusion of an antibody-specific
lymphocyte and a tumour cell

Question 3

placebo

Answer 3

a medicine that does not contain the active drug being tested, used in clinical trials of new medicines

Question 4

preclinical testing

Answer 4

is carried out on a potential new medicine in a laboratory using cells, tissues, and live animals

Question 5

vaccine

Answer 5

dead or inactive pathogenic material used in vaccination to develop immunity to a disease in a healthy person