title: A survey of biotechnology.
abstract: This issue on immunology and biotechnology opens with a survey of the contribution of immunology to medicine. Proteins, growth and differentiation factors, and monoclonal antibodies to surface antigens will have an impact in the 1990's likely similar to that of antibiotics in the 1950's. The characterization of factors and cell-surface molecules opens the investigation of the role of "recessive oncogenes" in the development of cancer. A further impact of immunology in the classical field of prophilaxis is represented by the innovative development of contraceptive vaccines based on the use of episomal shuttle vectors for the expression of surface sperm proteins able to induce an effective immune response.
authors.affiliation: University College, Department of Biology, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Mitchison
mesh_terms: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001709:Biotechnology; D003269:Contraception, Immunologic; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D007155:Immunologic Factors / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007158:Immunologic Techniques; D009857:Oncogenes; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D007155:Immunologic Factors; D011994:Recombinant Proteins