CRITICAL REVIEWS IN IMMUNOLOGY

The great advances in immunology in recent years make this field one of the most rapidly growing in biological sciences. This remarkable growth is stimulated by the influx of investigators from other disciplines such as biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and by an increased number of investigators who came to immunology through the more traditional routes of microbiology and various medical disciplines. As a consequence, immunology has become a vast and rich field encompassing outlooks that range from the highly clinical to the highly molecular. Although such perspectives may appear diverse, they are, in fact, highly interdependent. Critical Reviews in Immunology presents a balanced overview of contemporary immunology and melds together molecular immunology and immunobiology.

近年来免疫学的巨大进步使其成为生物科学中发展最快的领域之一。生物化学、遗传学、分子生物学等其他学科的研究人员的大量涌入，以及越来越多的研究人员通过微生物学和各种医学学科的更传统的途径进入免疫学，促进了这种显著的增长。因此，免疫学已成为一个广阔而丰富的领域，涵盖了从高度临床到高度分子的观点。尽管这些观点可能看起来不同，但实际上它们高度相互依赖。《免疫学评论》对当代免疫学进行了平衡的综述，并将分子免疫学和免疫生物学结合在一起。