Alterations in surface carbohydrates in glycolipids and glycoproteins of tumor cells relative to normal cells is a common feature of malignant diseases. immunostaining procedures developed for detecting glycolipid antigens with tumor-specific antibodies represent important new techniquesfor… More

Certain serum glycoproteins that are elevated in the serum or urine of cancer patients are considered to be tumro markers. analyses of the oligosaccharide side-chains on many of these glycoproteins, including a-fetorprotein (afp), gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase and human chronic gonadotropin, which… More

Radioimmunoassays make up a significant percentage of the immunoassays used in clinicallaboratories. Nonradioactive, immunometric or "sandwich" assays using enzymes for signal generation(EIAs) have generally replaced radioimmunoassays for high molecular weight analytes. Low molecularweight analytes… More

Mycobacterial tuberculosis (MTB) has recently reemerged as the leading infectious disease in the wobecause of HIV, drug use, homelessness and poverty. Current diagnostics for MTB are slow and laboriotreatment is effective when administered early. Thus, rapid methods for speculation and detection… More

There has been a recent concern raised regarding the contamination of water supplies by CryptosporiThis was sparked by the outbreak that occurred in Milwaukee. While contamination by any microbial agCryptosporidium has received much attention, in part, because it is a problem for… More