biopsy
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Those mutation targets are encoded into mRNA and manufactured into a vaccine—a process that takes about six weeks from the date of the biopsy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Eksteen said a recent contrast CT scan and bone marrow biopsy “have provided our veterinary team with important new information” but added the picture remains incomplete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
With additional research, she hopes extracellular vesicles might one day function as a type of liquid biopsy.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
She believes Bhatti should have carried out a biopsy of the lump during the first appointment.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
Kevin was placed in a Children’s Hospital to undergo a brain biopsy for a misdiagnosed tumor.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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No surprise, the panel agreed with him and concocted pretexts to kill the treatment—for instance, the staff opined that maybe biopsies had zapped the tumors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
In the short-term study, patients with advanced pancreatic cancer undergo biopsies before and after receiving a drug called OMO-103.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
Classifying a patient as cured also allows them to avoid intrusive, and sometimes painful, screening tests, like bone marrow biopsies.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2026
Her parents say GPs had downgraded her referral for biopsies to a routine one because of her age, meaning her cancer went undetected until it was too late.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026
But storing tissues from diagnostic procedures like, say, mole biopsies, and using them in future research doesn’t require such consent.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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After the initial diagnosis, Blevins said, doctors biopsied another “dark spot” that had appeared near the mole on his foot, and removed “a larger area around the melanoma.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
In diagnostic testing, a pathologist examines biopsied tissues under a microscope to identify cellular abnormalities that may hint at disease.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024
So McGrane and colleagues biopsied the tongue of a 6-year-old male cat that had been euthanized for health reasons unrelated to the study.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 25, 2023
In the study, researchers at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark biopsied abdominal fat from young, sedentary men, older sedentary men and physically active older men, most of them longtime and frequent cyclists.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2022
The cells did grow, but when Hyatt biopsied them a few weeks later, they were all cancerous.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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But the laborious strategy deployed in this study — biopsying the tumor, sequencing it and then dividing the patients into mutation-guided treatments — provided few novel therapeutic inroads.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2018
The movement today is toward biopsying 5-day embryos using microarray comparative genomic hybridization, which examines all 23 chromosome pairs and provides a more detailed picture of the entire length of the chromosomes.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2014
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