biopsy
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With additional research, she hopes extracellular vesicles might one day function as a type of liquid biopsy.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Instead, a biopsy of his bowel tissue found cancer.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
After a week getting steroids and pain medicine at Providence St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica, he received the biopsy results: an extremely aggressive malignant mass was blocking blood flow to Duong’s optic nerve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
But Rosie got sicker and a biopsy showed in 2024 that she did have terminal cancer.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 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
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
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
Doctors currently depend on biopsies and MRI scans to evaluate tumors in cancer patients.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026
The nurse said the doctor had successfully removed the growths and was sending them off for biopsies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 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
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
After three months, muscles from participants’ legs were biopsied, and scientists analyzed the activity level of over 20,000 genes in the tissue samples.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 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
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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