Sentences with word «microliter»

Last week, one of my patients had an elevated total white blood cell count and 1,236 bands per microliter of blood; normal is less than 300.

The technology does not provide a precise count of white blood cells, but reveals whether patients are above or below the threshold considered dangerous — defined as 500 neutrophils (the most common type of white blood cell) per microliter of blood.

To run a test, the paper device is simply inserted into a slot on the potentiostat, and microliter drops of serum sample and reagents are added to each biosensor.

«Our technological achievement rests upon the straightforward implementation of a seemingly real - time, microfluidic - based readout of microRNA sequences of interest, handling down to a few microliters of target volume,» explained Filippo Causa, an associate professor of industrial bioengineering in the Department of Chemical, Materials Engineering, and Industrial Production at the University of Naples Federico II.

After the RT - PCR process, samples are dyed and a few microliters from each tube are injected into different lanes of a gel made with agarose (a polymer derived from seaweed).

In a typical MFC, microliter quantities of reagents are held in reservoirs and these reagents are moved through the microchannels by applied voltages.

By repeating this process for hours, Rienhoff collected more than four dozen microliter ampules of genetic material, enough to send to a lab that sequenced Beatrice's myostatin receptor genes, where he suspected the problem might lie.

Consumables such as pipette tips, test tubes, microliter plates and single - use bioreactor vessels complement the range of highest - quality premium products.

The hand - held system evaluated in the study could deliver precise, single - digit microliter doses of medication to the eye's surface within 80 milliseconds, quicker than the blink of an eye.

Everything was predetermined, with instructions laid out for me like steps in a cookbook: «Add 100 microliters Transformation mix to a new centrifuge tube,» «Incubate this tube in the fridge for 30 minutes,» and so on.

Those processes and others now being used by researchers are more time consuming, less reliable and require a larger sample than the 100 microliters used in the UT Arlington experiments, Schug said.

Now, at Wagner's lab bench, I face a rack of fancy plastic gizmos that look like squirt guns but enable users to suck up precise microliters of liquid with a push of a button.

For example, Thermo Fisher Scientific's HRAM Orbitrap - based MS systems can detect as many as 1,000 metabolites from several microliters of human plasma in less than an hour.

As they report in the 3 August issue of Nature, they repeatedly aimed the microscope at the bottom of a 50 - microliter jar filled with a supersaturated solution of apoferritin, a sphere - shaped protein.

Adam Hall, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Wake Forest School of Medicine, injects microliters of fluid into a flow cell holding a nanopore device that has demonstrated the ability to detect molecular biomarkers of disease.

If there are more than sixty thousand reticulocytes per microliter, the anemia would be considered regenerative.

In response, a UT Arlington research team applied advanced mass spectrometry and chromatography instrumentation available at the Shimadzu Institute to develop a sensitive and efficient method for detecting trace amounts at less than 10 parts per trillion in a 100 microliter sample, said Kevin Schug, Shimadzu Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry at UT Arlington.

So his team created a 16 - microliter drop — a microdrop — that was about a half to a third of the size of most drops on the market today, he said.

Common drop sizes are between 25 and 56 microliters, the memo added.

A 2011 Pfizer memo said: «The drop size is not a medical dosing issue because the human eye can only absorb 7 (microliters) of fluid.»

Can the Chinese buy a few tubs of organic honey from a US roadside stand and add in a microliter of it to each gallon of honey they process, thus essentially stealing the identity of a US, homegrown honey?

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The median lethal dose of endotoxin in mice pretreated with 50 microliters of the specific antiserum was approximately 2.5 times greater the median lethal dose for controls given nonimmune serum.

Then I dipped my pipette into a small tube of DNA and tried to suck up 10 microliters.

But the level of precision required in art is nowhere near that for molecular biology — try visualizing 0.2 microliters of fluid — so Dunn is flexible with his equipment these days.

One is being tested here as the midwife uses a finger stick to collect 300 microliters of blood, just five or six drops, in a small tube, then she treats the samples with a DNA / RNA shield, essentially detergent to prevent degradation.

Their design works with volumes of sweat less than a microliter, which is the approximate amount of liquid that would fit in a cube the size of a salt crystal.

These Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drug are very specific signal receptors that can be incorporated into the neural circuit's control spots in very tiny amounts (0.5 microliter).

Prasad's team also determined that their biomarker measurements are reliable with a tiny amount of sweat — just 1 to 3 microliters, much less than the 25 to 50 previously believed necessary.

«When the capillary is filled, we have a very precise volume of blood, about five microliters, which is less than a droplet — much less than what is required by other anemia tests,» explained Erika Tyburski, the paper's first author and leader of the undergraduate team that developed the device.

The caffeine level was an average of 79 picomoles per 10 microliters for people without Parkinson's disease, compared to 24 picomoles per 10 microliters for people with the disease.

Although these chips offer a broad range of possibilities, in producing emulsions for example — droplets carrying another substance — the speed at which droplets leave the chip is typically in the microliter per minute range.

In a cell chamber about one - fifth the size of a teaspoon — 90 microliters — researchers placed a mixed culture of phototrophic and heterotrophic bacteria.

With only one microliter of blood, this technique provides what Simons calls «absolute quantification — we can identify up to 2,300 lipids.»

And the probe needs only a tiny sample of urine — 5 microliters — to provide an accurate reading.

Ten microliters of the MicroBeads were then added per 107 cells, mixed well, and then incubated for 15 min at 4 °C.

Two hundred microliters were inoculated on Vero cell monolayers in the wells of a 24 - well plate.

After months of troubleshooting, those people who did not tell you that essential thing ask incredulously, «You seriously didn't add 3 microliters of 5 mM star anise?»

Fifty microliters of protein (0.4 mg / ml) was heated from 27 °C to 85 °C at a rate of 1 °C per min in each well of a clear - bottom 384 - well plate (Nunc, Rochester, NY) in the presence of 0, 1, 10 and 100 µM of UNC0638.

It requires the smallest blood sample (0.3 microliters).

Normal canine and feline blood contains more than five million cells in every microliter (1/1, 000,000 th of 1 liter).

We have very strong reason to believe that transmission occurs when the viral load in bodily fluids is high, on the order of millions of virions per microliter.