Sentences with phrase «microliter sample»

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.

We have a short time period, and so we do about a billion experiments at a time, where we can genetically engineer our viruses to express different random peptide sequences and we can, you know, [in] about a one microliter sample we can introduce about a billion different viruses to a semiconductor wafer or an electrode and have them see if they can actually molecularly imprint it or try to do a chemical and physical map to it so that they can actually then have a template to grow that material.

Not exact matches

Still, he wrote in that review that using this technology it was possible to use «microliters of blood from a finger prick» instead of «milliliters of blood from a [vein]» and process those samples in a few minutes instead of an hour.

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.

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.

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

It requires the smallest blood sample (0.3 microliters).