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All samples were analyzed in a specialized translational laboratory using a standardized assay and measured using the current reporting standard of nmo/L.

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026

To measure individual circadian phases, Prof. Dr. Achim Kramer developed the BodyTime assay.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2026

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

But when Montaigne used the word it meant an assay or a test.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

To investigate the idea, the researchers combined biochemical and biophysical methods with high-resolution microscopy and neuron-based assays.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2025

These assays, which are tests to mimic how well a virus attaches to a cell, allowed the researchers to precisely track how the altered H5N1 hemagglutinin interacted with human-type receptors.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 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

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

Dowd most famously assayed the brutal Aunt Lydia in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” for which she won an Emmy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021

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

"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

The latter stands for Lucius Plaetorius Cestianus, who was a treasurer of sorts for Brutus and oversaw the minting and assaying of his coins.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

Word reaches us that Mr. Ben Schwartz has accepted an engagement at the Paramount Studios of Hollywood, California, where he will be assaying the role of Sonic the Hedgehog.

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2018

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

From Time ● Jan. 11, 2016

Cupel, kū′pel, n. a small vessel used by goldsmiths in assaying precious metals.—v.t. to assay in a cupel.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various