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
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
"I disappeared off the other week and I had a biopsy, and it is cancer, and it's aggressive, but it's really early," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
The biopsy But the doctor had made it clear that the ugly black hunk of skin was something bad.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
As part of the study, Vazquez grew cells collected from bat wing biopsies in the laboratory.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
His histology lab receives cancer service biopsies from across the hospital for diagnosis.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Those patients are more likely to be able to pay not only for the initial test, but also for the specialists, repeat imaging, and biopsies that may follow.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Those results suggest that blood-based DNA analysis could eventually reduce reliance on invasive liver biopsies for some patients.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
In this particular study—the largest ever done on the relationship between the two cervical cancers—Jones and TeLinde found that 62 percent of women with invasive cancer who’d had earlier biopsies first had carcinoma in situ.
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
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 1951, the same year Jones biopsied Henrietta’s tumor, researchers from Columbia University reported that the two types of cancer were easily and often confused.
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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