Antibodies are produced in order to prevent life threatening diseases. Antibodies have been recently used in many ways as treatments for diseases.
Antibodies are cells that fight viruses in the body before the virus endangers a person s health.
The most outstanding breakthrough in antibody research has been the treatments of cancer with monoclonal antibodies. They discovered that introduction of weakened forms of small pox into the body would prevent later infection by smallpox. In 1890, a German scientist Emil Adolf von Behring discovered antibodies. An antibody , is a chemical compound produced by the body to combine with and neutralize a particular foreign substance called an antigen . An antibody is a Y shaped molecule with a structure specifically matched for a particular antigen.