>In article <43ml4m$nma at netnews.upenn.edu>, David Peritt
><Peritt_d at a1.mscf.upenn.edu> wrote:
>>> I TA an undergrad Immunology and the proffessor was stumped by the
>> history behind the prime in the nomenclature for f(ab)'2 and Fab'. Can
>> anyone shed light on this??
I was a biology student a long time ago & did maths in school
even longer ago. I seem to remember that ' was used in set
theory to mean "everything that isn't X", where X plus X' equals
the universal set (curly E). Extrapolating from this, I used to
guess that Fab' was a denatured/altered version of Fab.
Any dissenting opinions welcomed !
Fran
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