Immunology
Research results from Vical, Inc. update knowledge of immunology
Published in Biotech Business Week, May 28th, 2007
Fresh data on immunology are presented in the report "Novel microneutralization assay for HCMV using automated data collection and analysis." According to a study from the United States, "In addition to being sensitive and specific, an assay for the assessment of neutralizing antibody activity from clinical trial samples must be amenable to automation for use in high-volume screening. To that effect, we developed a 96-well microplate assay for the measurement of HCMV-neutralizing activity in human sera using the HCMV-permissive human cell line HEL-299 and the laboratory strain of HCMV AD169."
"The degree to which neutralizing antibodies diminish HCMV infection of cells...
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