development by YalowAmerican medical physicist and joint recipient (with Andrew V. Schally and Roger Guillemin) of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, awarded for her development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), an extremely sensitive technique for measuring minute quantities of biologically active substances.
diagnosis of plant diseases...of a technique to produce large quantities of monoclonal antibodies, which bind to only one specific antigen. The sensitivity of antigen-antibody detection has been significantly increased by a radioimmunoassay (RIA) procedure. In this procedure a “known” antigen is overlayed on a plastic plate to which antigen molecules adhere. A solution of antibody is applied to the same...
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