biopsy
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The team captured bats, collected small biopsy samples and released the animals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
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
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
A fair amount of the nun’s liver traveled up the needle and filled a biopsy syringe.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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As part of the study, Vazquez grew cells collected from bat wing biopsies in the laboratory.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
A suspicious spot can lead to repeat imaging, biopsies, significant expense, and most importantly, months of worry—only to turn out to be benign.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Veterinarians carried out X-rays, ultrasounds and biopsies, but the underlying cause remained difficult to determine.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
The government said the clinic would offer women access to investigations including ultrasound scans and endometrial biopsies during the same visit, which could not be provided at a standard GP appointment.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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
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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
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
Before long, they were dating, and a couple weeks into their relationship, Amy asked about the scar on Staley’s neck, the spot that twice had been biopsied leading to his diagnosis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
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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