The technique described in the comic is the creation of hybridoma cells to make monoclonal antibodies. Wikipedia has a nice introduction: http://en.wikipedia.o

The technique described in the comic is the creation of hybridoma cells to make monoclonal antibodies. Wikipedia has a nice introduction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclonal_antibodies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclonal_antibodies Jerne, Koehler and Milstein got the Nobel prize for this in 1984: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1984/ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1984/