assay
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Additional techniques provided deeper insights, including flow cytometry, ex vivo expansion, RNA-seq, assay for transposase-accessible chromatin-seq, high-resolution imaging, metabolic testing, and detailed studies of mitochondria.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 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
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
Tom said seriously, “If the assay showed enough nickel and silver, wouldn’t it pay to mine it?”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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Secondly, recent assays have extended mineralisation outside the existing Bramaderos Resource, analyst Peter Kormendy says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
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
Further, we deployed in vitro assays such as a liposome model and cell culture techniques to investigate the mouse and the human version of the protein to find out if they work similar.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2025
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
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
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
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
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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
Bowie often had the intensity of a lizard assaying a stranger.
From Time ● Jan. 11, 2016
And unlike the authorities in Europe or Canada, the Secret Service has issued no reports of assaying $1 coins or looking for counterfeits.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2012
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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