assay
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Using an untargeted metabolomics assay, the scientists measured approximately 1,495 small molecules in blood serum.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Dash, whose team includes former software engineers from Moderna, automates common laboratory tests such as Elisa, or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, which is used for tasks such as evaluating a drug’s safety and efficacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2025
We set up an inhibition assay in test tubes.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024
The new assay aligns with ongoing efforts by state and federal agencies, which have invested more than $10 million from 2004 to 2021 to manage the Burmese pythons alone.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
By the mast pond, where the great spars of ships lay refracted, we saw a little girl with a bucket, a vain and minute assay at extinguishing the flames.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Secondly, recent assays have extended mineralisation outside the existing Bramaderos Resource, analyst Peter Kormendy says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
A series of tests, including cellular thermal shift assays, microscale thermophoresis, and surface plasmon resonance experiments, showed that OL binds directly to ACOT1.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
The analysts expect management to continue highlighting uptake of innovative instruments and assays in areas like pathology and immunoassay through the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
To address this, Geschwind used advances in single-cell assays, a technique that makes it possible to extract and identify the genetic information in the nuclei of individual cells.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
If such a haplogroup turned up in Pena’s assays, it could write a new chapter in the early history of Native Americans.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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On the other hand, transformation is often assayed by incorporating an antibiotic-resistance gene in the plasmid to be transferred into the host organism.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
At the Pantages, the role is assayed by Adrianna Hicks, an ensemble player in the Broadway revival who hasn’t quite made the leap to headliner.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2018
By using the best of four reaction conditions, 187 additional products were produced and assayed that bound to CHK1; the colour of the dots reflects the affinity ranking of the compounds.
From Nature ● Apr. 22, 2018
He says, “Please, please, please. But instead it shall be assayed by my wife, Lady Margaret Pickering.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2017
Again I assayed a response; this time, there was a low growl, a hideous, rasping gargle in the throat.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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"The refined bullion is analysed to the highest levels of accuracy, on various methods of gold assaying," says James Jose, managing director at CGR.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2024
The latter stands for Lucius Plaetorius Cestianus, who was a treasurer of sorts for Brutus and oversaw the minting and assaying of his coins.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
But Cult is assaying the livest of stories.
From Time ● Sep. 5, 2017
And unlike the authorities in Europe or Canada, the Secret Service has issued no reports of assaying $1 coins or looking for counterfeits.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2012
Connected with it are extensive collections of minerals and models, a library of 50,000 volumes, and laboratories for chemistry, metallurgy and assaying.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
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