Pharma IQ Glossary: Recombinant Antibody

A Recombinant Antibody is defined as an antibody produced by genetic engineering. Recombinant antibody has significant advantages compared with the conventional antibody and there for its use becoming more popular now days. The fact that no animals are needed in the manufacturing procedure of the recombinant antibodies, in addition, the manufacturing time is relatively short compared with the conventional method. Moreover, the quality of the final product is higher that these of the non recombinant method.