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assay

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




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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

In contrast, the newly developed tetraplex assay by UF/IFAS scientists can identify DNA traces of these snakes even weeks after they have left an area.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2024

By the mast pond, where the great spars of ships lay refracted, we saw a little girl with a bucket, a vain and minute assay at extinguishing the flames.

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




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