Software designed to speed up tumour, AIDS and vaccine research is being released by Carl Zeiss. The new KS ELISpot application combines with Zeiss microscope systems to make ELISpot (enzyme-linked immunosorbent spot) reading faster, more sensitive and more convenient, and also enables fluorescence ELISpot evaluation.
Originally developed to enumerate B cells secreting antigen-specific antibodies, ELISpot has been adapted for various tasks, especially the identification and enumeration of cytokine-producing cells at the single-cell level, where it allows visualisation of the secretory product of individual activated or responding cells.
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