biopsy
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The team captured bats, collected small biopsy samples and released the animals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Doctors send a blood sample and biopsy of the tumor, where the cancer’s genetic profile is analyzed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Despite a battery of tests, including a contrast CT scan and bone marrow biopsy, experts could not determine what was making Jackie critically ill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
A biopsy revealed cancer, and then after a MRI scan she was told she had stage four metastatic breast cancer.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 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
His histology lab receives cancer service biopsies from across the hospital for diagnosis.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
But because they screen so thoroughly, they can also lead to needless biopsies, expenses, and anxiety.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
These patients “are having more and more and more scares, biopsies, concerns, and they feel like they already have cancer,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
To explore whether the findings apply to people, the researchers analyzed an existing genomic dataset from human liver biopsies.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2026
TeLinde set out to minimize what he called “unjustifiable hysterectomies” by documenting what wasn’t cervical cancer and by urging surgeons to verify smear results with biopsies before operating.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Consultant plastic surgeon Neil Wickham checked her face, confirmed a biopsied lump on her arm was benign, and referred her to ENT for a separate lump in her neck.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Einziger also biopsied a patch on his arm for Grimes to analyze.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 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
I biopsied it and checked it under the microscope.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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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