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Rituxan and monoclonal antibodies: cancer treatment of the future?
Adult patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or (sometimes) rheumatoid arthritis may be presented with the option of taking Rituxan as part of their treatment. Rituxan, also known as rituximab, is a monoclonal antibody drug. Specifically, Rituxan targets CD20 receptor proteins on cancer cells using monoclonal antibodies. Monoclonal antibody drugs are relatively new, but…
(Anti)body of Proof: blood tests and COVID-19 immunity
The National Institutes of Health has called for 10,000 healthy volunteers to take part in antibody testing to determine undetected cases of COVID-19. So what is an antibody test? What does it measure and what does it mean? Antibody tests are analyses of human blood samples which look for the presence of particular antibodies in…
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