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assay

[a-say, as-ay, a-say] / æˈseɪ, ˈæs eɪ, æˈseɪ /




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The liver fibrosis assay described in the study remains a prototype and has not yet been introduced as a clinical test.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 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

They developed an assay that can be used to screen drugs to see if they restore protein mobility by comparing each drug's effect on a simple biomarker with surface cysteines to one without.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 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

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

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

He assayed characters from each of the nominated musicals and finished up in the number, in versatile style, tap dancing in a tuxedo.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2017

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

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

Now admittedly, assaying a defense of Mr. Weiner on this point is akin to being a Legal Aid lawywer on the night shift at Bronx Criminal Court.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2011

Fulgurā′tion, in assaying, the sudden and final brightening of the fused globule; Ful′gurīte, a tube of vitrified sand frequent in loose sandhills—prob. due to lightning—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various




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