Tuesday, February 17, 2004

I got to play around with an ELISPOT reader today. Also read about the differences between humoral and cellular immunity. Laypeople naturally think of antibodies when the subject of developing immunity comes up, but there's a lot more to it than just that (think: lymphocytes, cytokines).

There's a book on immunology that I borrowed from the library last month. I think I'll check it out again.

I also want to point anyone reading this to a list of clean jokes here.
Last night, I was reading about the hardware and software involved in ELISPOT analyzers. The applications for machine intelligence in these vision routines are interesting. Doing this properly also requires a pretty good understanding of camera design and machine vision techniques.

I'd say more, but I've got a whole bunch of other writing to do.