What is a bioassay?

From BioAssayLINK’s perspective a bioassay is defined as any system in which a biological effect can be determined or measured.  For example, bioassays can involve the use of:

• animal models of disease and their equivalence
• anti-sense technology
• bioengineering
• biomaterials
• cell or tissue culture
• DNA microarray
• drugs and metabolites
• enzymes
• ligand binding
• mRNA or protein expression
• organ perfusions
• receptor signalling.