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What are hybridomas?

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Hybridomas are cells that have been engineered to produce a desired antibody in large amounts, to produce monoclonal antibodies.
It is a cell produced in laboratory from the fusion of an antibody producing lymphocyte and a cancerous cell usually a myeloma or lymphoma. It proliferates and continuously produces monoclonal antibodies.
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