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
In contrast, the newly developed tetraplex assay by UF/IFAS scientists can identify DNA traces of these snakes even weeks after they have left an area.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
How can one assay the total impact of the unprecedented calamity that gave rise to the world we live in?
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
The CuSTOM Accelerator team continues working to automate organoid assays and enable high-throughput screening across large, genetically diverse donor populations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
Typically Elisa assays are built from scratch for a specific application.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2025
"Our computational approaches further allowed us to identify and analyze these rare events that are not visible with standard sequencing assays."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 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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Then the curtains will close on Morgan’s particular view of this famously inscrutable family, assayed by so many indelible actors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023
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
As a sprawling human drama, poised on the precipice of a violence that you know is waiting for its beguilingly drawn and assayed characters, it is a riveting work of art.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 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
I assayed to throw up the Sash, that I might longer watch his Progress, who was the great Work of my Hands, but would not lift.
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
But assaying information — weighing it, analyzing it, separating the gold from the pyrite — still depends on old-fashioned human judgment.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2021
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
For purposes of large transactions, the item of weighing and assaying would not be serious.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
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