Commercial outbred pigs can serve as model for human therapeutics

Laboratory-made monoclonal antibodies are used to treat conditions including cancer, autoimmune and infectious diseases. Commercial outbred pigs can be used as models to test how quickly therapeutic monoclonal antibodies disappear from the human body after injection, according to research by The Pirbright Institute.MAbs can recognize, attach to and kill infectious viruses, bacteria or cancer cells, but it is important to know how long they persist in the body after injection so that treatment ca