Results of a large number of biological and medical assays interpreted through a microscope.
"Everyone who's developing HIV drugs uses their assays, " says Kate Winkler, a biotech analyst at Merriman Curhan Ford.
Some samples are shipped back here to the lab, prepared as assays, and we feed everything to the robot.
In fluorescent assays, for example, the target molecules are tagged with glowing labels that can be seen through a microscope.
To meet this need, biotech firms have developed high throughput screeners--devices that can screen up to 100, 000 cell assays (tests) per day.
In addition, searching for more than one kind of biomolecule using standard methods often requires large samples and a series of assays.
Thus before any claims regarding the relative sensitivity of the two assays were made, the integrity of the mitochondrial DNA should have been investigated.
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There are several HgA1c assays or tests that do not give accurate readings with patients who may have an underlying hemoglobin disorder, also called a hemoglobinopathy.
Next we turn to the section of the study where the authors test the ability of their PCR assays (IAP and mtDNA) to detect mouse DNA in mouse cell lines.
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Other members of my laboratory will use techniques such as force spectroscopy and single-molecule assays to further investigate the compounds that I screen, providing a more complete picture of the actions of these compounds.
ViroLogic also sells its screens--called assays--to large pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) and GlaxoSmithKline (nyse: GSK - news - people )for use in developing new HIV drugs.
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