近年來免疫學(xué)的巨大進(jìn)步使其成為生物科學(xué)中發(fā)展最快的領(lǐng)域之一。生物化學(xué)、遺傳學(xué)、分子生物學(xué)等其他學(xué)科的研究人員的大量涌入，以及越來越多的研究人員通過微生物學(xué)和各種醫(yī)學(xué)學(xué)科的更傳統(tǒng)的途徑進(jìn)入免疫學(xué)，促進(jìn)了這種顯著的增長。因此，免疫學(xué)已成為一個(gè)廣闊而豐富的領(lǐng)域，涵蓋了從高度臨床到高度分子的觀點(diǎn)。盡管這些觀點(diǎn)可能看起來不同，但實(shí)際上它們高度相互依賴。《免疫學(xué)評論》對當(dāng)代免疫學(xué)進(jìn)行了平衡的綜述，并將分子免疫學(xué)和免疫生物學(xué)結(jié)合在一起。

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.