Everything You Want to Know About Antibody Development When foreign molecules, which are known as antigens, enter our body, antibodies will be released by B cells of the immune system to specifically bind to the antigens and finally clear out those “invaders”. Such a highly specific molecular recognition mechanism has inspired a variety of antibody development research and diagnostic applications nowadays, including IVD antibody development . What is Antibody Development? Antibody development is the process of creating and characterizing an antibody. The timeline of developing antibodies starts from the injection of an antigen of interest into a host animal, so that the host’s immune system can detect it and generat e the desired antibodies. Then, antibody development proceeds with finding and isolating the desired antibodies from the rest of the protein in sera. The reset procedure of antibody development is varied as the desired antibodi...