What are Immunoassays?

Immunoassays are bioanalytical methods that use the specificity of an antigen-antibody reaction to detect and quantify target molecules in biological samples. These methods are frequently used in clinical diagnostics, drug discovery, drug monitoring, and food testing.

Types of immunoassays

The principle of an immune assay is based on competitions between a fixed amount of labeled analyte and a variable amount of unlabeled sample analyte for binding a limited number of binding sites of an antibody specifically raised against the analyte. These methods can be used to detect a target molecule quantitatively, semiquantitatively, or qualitatively.

What is Biochemical?

Biochemical explores chemical processes related to living organisms. It is a laboratory-based science combining biology and chemistry.

Biochemists study the structure, composition, and chemical reactions of substances in living systems and, in turn, their functions and ways to control them. Biochemical emerged as a separate discipline when scientists combined biology with organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry. They began to study areas such as:

1 How living things get energy from food

2 The chemical basis of heredity

3 What fundamental changes occur in disease

Biochemical includes the sciences of molecular biology, immunochemistry, and neurochemistry, as well as bioinorganic, bioorganic, and biophysical chemistry.