reagent
noun
re·agent
rē-ˈā-jənt 
: a substance used (as in detecting or measuring a component, in preparing a product, or in developing photographs) because of its chemical or biological activity
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Meanwhile, international demand for reagents—the chemicals that make both kinds of tests work—and sampling swabs is already outstripping supply and production.
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Michael T. Osterholm, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
They were inspired by chemistry, and analyzed human interactions according to the chemical principle of mass action, which relates the rate of reaction between two reagents to their relative densities in the mix.
—Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
Although life-science reagents suppliers like NEB sell research-grade isothermal amplification kits for less than US $2 per test, the sticker price for consumer assays range from $50 to $75 a pop (with an additional one-time hardware cost of between $25 and $250 for some commercial products).
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2022
Later, several biomedical firms produced their own versions of rFC and compounds called recombinant cascade reagents (rCRs), which reproduce the entire LAL reaction without using horseshoe crab blood.
—Kristoffer Whitney, Fortune Well, 13 Oct. 2023
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Michael T. Osterholm, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
They were inspired by chemistry, and analyzed human interactions according to the chemical principle of mass action, which relates the rate of reaction between two reagents to their relative densities in the mix.
—Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
Although life-science reagents suppliers like NEB sell research-grade isothermal amplification kits for less than US $2 per test, the sticker price for consumer assays range from $50 to $75 a pop (with an additional one-time hardware cost of between $25 and $250 for some commercial products).
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2022
Later, several biomedical firms produced their own versions of rFC and compounds called recombinant cascade reagents (rCRs), which reproduce the entire LAL reaction without using horseshoe crab blood.
—Kristoffer Whitney, Fortune Well, 13 Oct. 2023
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reagent
noun
re·agent
rē-ˈā-jənt
1
: a substance used (as in detecting or measuring a component, in preparing a product, or in developing photographs) because of its chemical or biological activity
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