6 Tips to Optimize Your Immunoassay

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Published: August 16, 2018

Audrey Gutierrez, PhD

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Immunoassays are super fancy and sophisticated. These assays are developed and optimized to help you determine immune correlates of cancer treatments, or to determine which immune cells are “turned on” in the early stages of cancer, whether these cells are becoming exhausted by the chronic condition that is cancer, or what molecule can potentially be a target for immunotherapy.

The possibilities of what an immunoassay can do for your project are endless, limited only by your imagination, ok, and reagents, antibodies, equipment, time – well, you get the idea.

This list provides 6 tips for optimizing your immunoassay.

More specifically it highlights:

General methods for optimization
Important points to consider
Challenges you may face
Tips to overcome these challenges

Meet the Author

Audrey Gutierrez, PhD

Audrey Gutierrez holds a PhD in microbiology from University of California, Davis. Her training emphasis is in immunology, virology, vaccines and preclinical vaccine studies.