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assay

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




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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

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

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

"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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