A "small biopsy" refers to a procedure where a tiny piece of tissue is removed from the body for further examination. It is done to help diagnose or study diseases or conditions without having to take out a larger amount of tissue. Full definition
In the study, reported online in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, small biopsies of papillae — the little bumps on the tongue that contain taste receptors — were taken from 18 people known to have the same moderate - taster (heterozygous) genotype for the TASR38 bitter taste receptor and the amount of mRNA expression for this genotype was measured. (sciencedaily.com)
The sphincters were engineered using small biopsies from the animals» sphincter and intestinal tissue. (sciencedaily.com)
Cardiosphere - derived stem cells (CDCs) are cells grown from small biopsy samples taken from the heart and are delivered back to the patient's heart by intracoronary infusion. (discovery.lifemapsc.com)