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Immunology

Image: The V-PLEX Aβ Peptide Panel 1 (6E10) Kit (Photo courtesy of Meso Scale Discovery).

Diagnostic Process Detects Alzheimer’s Years before Symptoms Appear

Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is accompanied by misfolding of amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau from monomeric into β-sheet–enriched pathogenic species. This process is suggested to precede about 10 to 15 years before clinical onset of the disease. More...
23 May 2019
Image: A digitally colorized, transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image, which reveals some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion (Photo courtesy of Cynthia Goldsmith / CDC).

Simple and Inexpensive Ebola Virus Disease Test Developed

Ebola and Marburg viruses can cause severe bleeding and organ failure, with fatality rates reaching 90% in some outbreaks. The diseases spread through direct contact with bodily fluids of an infected person, monkey, gorilla, chimpanzee or bat. More...
21 May 2019
Image: The FLEXMAP3D Analyzer is an advanced and versatile multiplexing platform (Photo courtesy of Luminex).

Renal Transplant Rejection Assessed by HLA Antigen Bead Assay

Acute cellular rejection (ACR) is associated with complications after kidney transplantation, such as graft dysfunction and graft loss. Early risk assessment is therefore critical for the improvement of transplantation outcomes. More...
21 May 2019
Image: The ARCHITECT i2000SR immunoassay analyzer (Photo courtesy of Abbott).

Blood Test May Predict Cardiovascular Disease

According to the latest statistics from the American Heart Association (AHA), almost half of the people living in the USA have some form of cardiovascular disease. In fact, according to 2016 figures, 121.5 million adults in the USA, or 48% of the entire population, have cardiovascular disease (CVD), which is a cluster of conditions that includes hypertension. More...
16 May 2019
Image: The Helios CyTOF mass cytometry platform (Photo courtesy of Fluidigm).

Immune Cell Profiling Assay Boosts Use of Mass Cytometry

A new, multiplexed, antibody-based assay for immune cell profiling on its mass cytometry platform has been launched. More...
09 May 2019
Image: The Bioanalyzer 2100 system is a microfluidic platform that provides quantitation and quality control of DNA and RNA by capillary electrophoresis (Photo courtesy of Agilent Technologies).

Multiple Myeloma Sequences Reveal Prognostic Immunoglobulin Translocation

Multiple myeloma is the second most common hematological cancer, which affects terminally differentiated antibody secreting B cells, known as plasma cells. Clinical manifestations of myeloma include hypercalcemia, anemia, renal failure, and lytic bone lesions. More...
08 May 2019
Image: A Pgp3 LFA-dipstick test. After approximately 4 hours, the LFA-dipstick was inserted into the well for 15 to 20 minutes, and then LFA buffer was added (A). LFAs were read when the membrane was completely cleared of background staining (B) (Photo courtesy of the CDC).

Rapid Test for Chlamydia Antigen Antibodies Optimized

Trachoma, resulting from repeated infection with the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct), is the leading infectious cause of blindness. Trachoma is targeted for elimination as a public health problem by 2020. More...
07 May 2019
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The Immunology channel of LabMedica deals with diagnostic techniques and immuonassays such as ELISA, pregnancy tests, immunoblotting, immunohistochemical staining, serology, and associated hardware.