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assay

[a-say, as-ay] / æˈseɪ, ˈæs eɪ /




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Additional techniques provided deeper insights, including flow cytometry, ex vivo expansion, RNA-seq, assay for transposase-accessible chromatin-seq, high-resolution imaging, metabolic testing, and detailed studies of mitochondria.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 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

They developed an assay that can be used to screen drugs to see if they restore protein mobility by comparing each drug's effect on a simple biomarker with surface cysteines to one without.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

But when Montaigne used the word it meant an assay or a test.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The authors reported negative results in most assays, including tests for mutations and chromosome damage.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Mr. Currey asks an important question about Genet, but assays no answer: “Was it prison that enabled his writing, or was it the act of theft that he practiced so assiduously during all those years?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 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

As health officials turn increasingly toward wastewater testing as a means of tracking the spread of H5N1 bird flu among U.S. dairy herds, some researchers are raising questions about the effectiveness of the sewage assays.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 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

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 the components of these natural toxins continue to be assayed by evolving technologies, the number of promising molecules is also growing.

From New York Times ● May 3, 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

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

"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 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

Now admittedly, assaying a defense of Mr. Weiner on this point is akin to being a Legal Aid lawywer on the night shift at Bronx Criminal Court.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2011

He can, however, fairly be accounted as the author of the first proper text-book upon assaying.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola


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