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SPIT VS. SWAB? SCIENTISTS SAY NEW STUDIES SUPPORT USE OF ‘SALIVA TESTS’ FOR COVIDLEE CLIFFORDSEPTEMBER 5, 2020FORTUNEThe issue of standardized antiboday assays is further complicated by the fact that different types of assays may be needed.
SCIENTISTS TO WALL STREET: YOU DON’T REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW COVID VACCINE TESTS WORKJEREMY KAHNAUGUST 24, 2020FORTUNEMany of the same issues that bedevil comparing neutralizing antibody assays, apply equally to assays for T-cell responses.
SCIENTISTS TO WALL STREET: YOU DON’T REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW COVID VACCINE TESTS WORKJEREMY KAHNAUGUST 24, 2020FORTUNESo far, each vaccine candidate has been tested using a different procedure—known as an assay— conducted in different labs.
SCIENTISTS TO WALL STREET: YOU DON’T REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW COVID VACCINE TESTS WORKJEREMY KAHNAUGUST 24, 2020FORTUNESuch antibody assays in mid-April indicated that close to one-in-eight people who had been tested in New York State had antibodies to the new coronavirus.
MILLIONS OF LIKELY U.S. COVID-19 CASES HAVE GONE UNDIAGNOSEDTINA HESMAN SAEYJULY 6, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSTo determine the denominator for that calculation, “we need national random samples with a large sample size with antibody assays to determine who has been infected,” he said.
WHY SOUTH ASIA’S COVID-19 NUMBERS ARE SO LOW (FOR NOW)PUJA CHANGOIWALAJUNE 23, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINETwenty baskets of it were obtained by the said miners to assay and investigate its nature, and determine what it might be.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUSOn being fused with twenty-three libras of lead, nothing was obtained from the said assay.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUSThence were taken fifteen baskets of gravel and dirt, which has the color of coal, in order to assay it.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUSCash looked up from studying the last assay report of the Burro Lode, and his look was not pleasant.
CABIN FEVERB. M. BOWERWORDS RELATED TO ASSAY
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- toil
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- aim
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- toil
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- toiled
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- moils
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- tackles
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- toils
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- aimed
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- attempted
- bent over backward
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- broke one's neck
- competed
- contended
- did one's best
- did one's utmost
- drove
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- hassled
- jockeyed
- knocked oneself out
- labored
- left no stone unturned
- made every effort
- moiled
- offered
- pushed
- scrambled
- shot for
- sought
- strained
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- tackled
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- tried hard
- tugged
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- went for broke
- went for the jugular
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- assay
- attempt
- bend over backwards
- break one's back
- break one's neck
- cope
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- offer
- plug
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- scratch
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- slave
- strain
- strive
- sweat
- tackle
- take a crack
- take a stab
- take on
- toil
- try
- try one's hardest
- undertake
- work like a dog
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