biopsy

Scientists biopsy and genetically sequence a patient’s tumor cells.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Despite a battery of tests, including a contrast CT scan and bone marrow biopsy, experts could not determine what was making Jackie critically ill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

With additional research, she hopes extracellular vesicles might one day function as a type of liquid biopsy.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

When a biopsy is taken, the genetic material in the tissue degrades within hours, unless it is protected.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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

"Our study is based on human tissue and patient biopsies."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 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

These tests are sometimes known as liquid biopsies, and some existing methods search for mutations in DNA released by tumors.

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

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

The “Strong Looks Better Naked” author opened up about her history with skin-cancer scares in 2016, telling then-users of her official app that she frequently has moles checked and often has to have them biopsied.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 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

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