Topic - I Can't Remember What Topic and This Is Hard Stuff

Question 1

How do Monoclonal Antibodies work?

Answer 1

• Inject the protein into a mouse
• Combine lymphocytes with tumour to make hybridoma
• Find a hybridoma which makes a monoclonal antibody specific to … (whatever you want to solve)
• The scientist clones the hybridoma to make the antibody

Question 2

How does therapeutic cloning work?

Answer 2

• Take stem cells from patient
• Remove …(faulty) gene
• Create embryo using these stem cells
• Remove stem cells from embryo and stimulate them to differentiate into … cells
• For CF question, replace … with CF and replace the second … with lung