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assay

[a-sey, as-ey, a-sey] / æˈseɪ, ˈæs eɪ, æˈseɪ /




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Using an untargeted metabolomics assay, the scientists measured approximately 1,495 small molecules in blood serum.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

Using an assay created by the Crick researchers, they confirmed that these compounds successfully blocked the RAS-PI3K interaction but still allowed PI3K to perform its other roles, including those related to insulin signaling.

From Science Daily Oct. 19, 2025

Dash, whose team includes former software engineers from Moderna, automates common laboratory tests such as Elisa, or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, which is used for tasks such as evaluating a drug’s safety and efficacy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2025

We set up an inhibition assay in test tubes.

From Salon Dec. 16, 2024

How can one assay the total impact of the unprecedented calamity that gave rise to the world we live in?

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Mr. Currey asks an important question about Genet, but assays no answer: “Was it prison that enabled his writing, or was it the act of theft that he practiced so assiduously during all those years?”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

Typically Elisa assays are built from scratch for a specific application.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2025

"Our computational approaches further allowed us to identify and analyze these rare events that are not visible with standard sequencing assays."

From Science Daily Nov. 20, 2024

To address this, Geschwind used advances in single-cell assays, a technique that makes it possible to extract and identify the genetic information in the nuclei of individual cells.

From Science Daily May 23, 2024

If such a haplogroup turned up in Pena’s assays, it could write a new chapter in the early history of Native Americans.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Then the curtains will close on Morgan’s particular view of this famously inscrutable family, assayed by so many indelible actors.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 27, 2023

On the other hand, transformation is often assayed by incorporating an antibiotic-resistance gene in the plasmid to be transferred into the host organism.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

As the components of these natural toxins continue to be assayed by evolving technologies, the number of promising molecules is also growing.

From New York Times May 3, 2022

It put him at the head of a trio that assayed the compositions of Steve Swallow, a bassist/composer and Scofield’s mentor.

From Washington Post Aug. 27, 2021

Again I assayed a response; this time, there was a low growl, a hideous, rasping gargle in the throat.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

"The refined bullion is analysed to the highest levels of accuracy, on various methods of gold assaying," says James Jose, managing director at CGR.

From BBC Mar. 28, 2024

When Sterling-Duprey reappears onstage with her headlamp, she might be assaying the damage.

From New York Times Mar. 5, 2023

But assaying information — weighing it, analyzing it, separating the gold from the pyrite — still depends on old-fashioned human judgment.

From Washington Post Dec. 24, 2021

Bowie often had the intensity of a lizard assaying a stranger.

From Time Jan. 11, 2016

I went to Biorknas, in order to be instructed in the art of assaying.

From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland by Carl von Linn?




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