How to Use assay in a Sentence

assay

noun

• That [fourth case]was not a TaqPath assay, so there was no reason for the lab to even question it.
  — Joe Carlson, Star Tribune, 17 Jan. 2021
• Other gene assays exist, but this one is the most widely used in the United States.
  — Denise Grady, New York Times, 3 June 2018
• The assay includes a swab, a vial of extraction solution and a cassette the size of a small flash drive.
  — Emma Court, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2020
• The show assays two very different types of female power, and does so with both edge and heart.
  — Daniel D'addario, Time, 30 May 2018
• What the blood assays for the tau protein, the main component of tangles in the brain, tell us is little less certain.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive.com, 10 Aug. 2019
• The assay can run 92 samples in about three hours, although the turnaround time depends on the lab conducting the test.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2020
• The species taken from the nematodes’ guts did not stop the growth of E. coli in this traditional assay.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2019
• The PanSeer assay is very new and strictly in the exploration phase, the researchers emphasize.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2020
• The country tests widely for the virus—thanks in part to that first assay, developed in Drosten’s lab—and has managed to keep case numbers low.
  — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 28 Apr. 2020
• This is a case when mouse assays are helpful for knowing what deserves a closer look but far from the last word on a topic.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2020
• There are a lot of drugs that target the adrenaline system, so the team tested similar drugs in the same assay.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2017
• In time, Guccione said, the test could be used alongside other assays to reveal more about how T cells protect and for how long.
  — Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
• This is useful since the extraction step takes extra time and the reagents used in the assay are currently in short supply.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2020
• It was supposed to do general chemistry assays and blood cell counts, etc.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 3 June 2018
• This assay should be able to be readily adapted to other pathogens.
  — Judy Stone, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• Birx had said that antigen tests could be used as first-pass screening tools that would be confirmed with follow-up PCR assays.
  — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 7 May 2020
• Microarrays for running assays on large numbers of genes at once were brand-new.
  — Esther Landhuis, Scientific American, 12 June 2017
• Microarrays for running assays on large numbers of genes at once were brand-new.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2017
• The development of the proper PCR assay formulation is still down the line, and the team is still seeking funding for the overall work.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 16 June 2023
• This test, called a lateral flow assay, can be used in a doctor’s office, with results in minutes.
  — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2020
• To combat that issue, the swabs Rubin used in the station-sweeping assay are double-headed.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2021
• Testing whether the assay can be used for screening will take longer, and will involve learning how to test for levels of synuclein in blood, skin, or on nasal swabs.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 12 Apr. 2023
• Several chemical assays failed to identify any poison; granted, the methods of the day were not up to the task.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
• The participants had to have first shown symptoms within the past week and to have tested positive in a rapid antigen assay.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2023
• The assay, known as CareStart, is among a group of new antigen tests that detect the novel coronavirus by looking for proteins on its surface.
  — Emma Court, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2020
• Only three labs nationwide use modern assays to screen for HIV.
  — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 24 June 2019
• The assay, developed by a British biotech firm, was used last year to assess the cellular immunity of people in Madrid.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s assay fell flat.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• Tests known as assay kits are made up of several vials of chemical solutions.
  — Ivan Watson, CNN, 12 Mar. 2020
• This assay only works on a platform specific to many of Ortho Clinical’s blood tests.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 9 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024