biopsy
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She underwent a brain biopsy carried out by a private neurosurgeon.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Doctors send a blood sample and biopsy of the tumor, where the cancer’s genetic profile is analyzed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
With additional research, she hopes extracellular vesicles might one day function as a type of liquid biopsy.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
The content creator said her daughter underwent numerous X-rays, ultrasounds and a biopsy before the hospital team confirmed the cancer diagnosis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Kevin was placed in a Children’s Hospital to undergo a brain biopsy for a misdiagnosed tumor.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
Working with clinicians from the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the team collected around 900 biopsies from 80 people with and without IBD.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
As part of the study, Vazquez grew cells collected from bat wing biopsies in the laboratory.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 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
But storing tissues from diagnostic procedures like, say, mole biopsies, and using them in future research doesn’t require such consent.
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
After the initial diagnosis, Blevins said, doctors biopsied another “dark spot” that had appeared near the mole on his foot, and removed “a larger area around the melanoma.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
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 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
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