41. Tanner said PDL also faces two other competing technologies for creating monoclonal antibodies. 42. They did the clinical trials that pushed this monoclonal through the regulatory process. 43. But the use of monoclonal antibodies as drugs met with disappointment after disappointment. 44. ImmunoGen specializes in developing drugs using monoclonal antibodies that bind to cancer cells. 45. Monoclonal antibodies can seek out and destroy diseased cells.46. -- Japanese pharmaceutical company gets patent on monoclonal antibody . ( Asahi) 47. The FDA has approved monoclonal antibodies to battle other ailments, including cancer. 48. Monoclonal antibodies have also raised high levels of interest.49. With regard to therapeutics, multiple monoclonal antibodies were under investigation in 2007. 50. The long term safety and effectiveness of monoclonal antibody treatment is not known.
