Immunology & Immunogenetics

Immunotechnology is a technology based on applications of cells and molecules of the immune system. The exquisite specificity of antigen-antibody interactions has led to the development of a variety of immunological techniques. These techniques have played a vital role in diagnosing disease, monitoring the level of the humoral immune response, and identifying molecules of biological or medical interest. Advances in immunodiagnostic technologies provide the basis for developing antigen-detection platforms capable of meeting stringent requirements for sensitivity, specificity, assay speed, robustness, and simplicity. An antibody-based microarray is setting a novel proteomic technology sets a new standard for molecular profiling of non-fractionated complex proteomes.