assay
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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
In contrast, the newly developed tetraplex assay by UF/IFAS scientists can identify DNA traces of these snakes even weeks after they have left an area.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
By the mast pond, where the great spars of ships lay refracted, we saw a little girl with a bucket, a vain and minute assay at extinguishing the flames.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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To measure how well the compounds could combat the virus, the team used plaque reduction assays.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
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
The analysts expect management to continue highlighting uptake of innovative instruments and assays in areas like pathology and immunoassay through the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
"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
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
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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
Tripp, as assayed by Paulson, has equal depth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
As a sprawling human drama, poised on the precipice of a violence that you know is waiting for its beguilingly drawn and assayed characters, it is a riveting work of art.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2018
By using the best of four reaction conditions, 187 additional products were produced and assayed that bound to CHK1; the colour of the dots reflects the affinity ranking of the compounds.
From Nature ● Apr. 22, 2018
I assayed to throw up the Sash, that I might longer watch his Progress, who was the great Work of my Hands, but would not lift.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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"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
An interesting note appears in the glossary given by Sir John Pettus in his translation of Lazarus Erckern's work on assaying.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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