Recombinant antibodies advantages

It is critical to keep in mind that existing reagents can be used for multiple formats. Eor example, polyclonal antibodies dominate the environmental field because they generally provide greater sensitivity and specificity for small molecules at a much lower cost than do monoclonal or recombinant antibodies. With some biosensors monoclonal or engineered antibodies or recombinant binding proteins may offer advantages. 

The best-known process that uses transgenic animals to produce antibodies is expression in the milk.9 Production of recombinant antibodies in the milk of transgenic animals often presents the advantage of an overexpression level that reaches values as high as several milligrams per milliliters of milk. This is... 

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