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assay

[a-sey, as-ey, a-sey] / æˈseɪ, ˈæs eɪ, æˈseɪ /




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After measuring ethanol levels using an enzymatic assay, the team estimated daily alcohol intake for several nectar-feeding species based on their caloric needs.

From Science Daily Mar. 25, 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

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

To investigate the idea, the researchers combined biochemical and biophysical methods with high-resolution microscopy and neuron-based assays.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 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

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

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

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

That was followed by another sweaty hour in which Hinterhäuser assayed all six of Ustvolskaya’s piano sonatas, written between 1947 and 1988, with no break between them.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 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

A sloop’s crew assayed flight in their longboat, but they were overtaken.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

"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

When Sterling-Duprey reappears onstage with her headlamp, she might be assaying the damage.

From New York Times Mar. 5, 2023

Word reaches us that Mr. Ben Schwartz has accepted an engagement at the Paramount Studios of Hollywood, California, where he will be assaying the role of Sonic the Hedgehog.

From Slate Aug. 9, 2018

Bowie often had the intensity of a lizard assaying a stranger.

From Time Jan. 11, 2016

Fulgurā′tion, in assaying, the sudden and final brightening of the fused globule; Ful′gurīte, a tube of vitrified sand frequent in loose sandhills—prob. due to lightning—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various




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