Sentences with phrase «take lab samples»

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Using microbiome analysis technology first developed in Los Alamos Lab to combat disease warfare, the company takes the samples and creates RNA and metabolic profiles for each customer.

For Theranos to take lab - testing business from the two major lab companies used by doctors, Quest and LabCorp, and to partner to run tests for more hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies, it has to show it can get it right at every stage, from the preparation before it pricks someone's finger to the accurate processing of hundreds of thousands of samples.

For example, labs take DNA samples from patients being tested for cancer and runs tests to detect if mutations typically associated with cancer are present; a diagnostician then examines those genetic mutations and compares them to known instances; finally, based on that information a physician recommends a course of treatment.

It may simply mean that one of this samples got sent to a lab able to detect what he took.

6) Lab Testing - Human milk samples are taken during the pasteurization process and cultured to check for bacterial growth.

If he sends the sample to a lab for testing, it may take a day or two to get the results.

After his father's death from cancer, Hickey took his own water samples from sources around town and sent them to a lab out of state that confirmed elevated levels of PFOA.

Returning to the lab, he examined DNA in tissue samples taken from the children.

Once the Ventana has captured the MRS and brought its cargo up on deck, the samples — including the porky red jelly, the Voragonema — are transferred to the ship's lab, taken out of their canisters, and put into small plastic tubs.

«Instead of sending a sample to a lab and finding out two weeks or two months later and having to go back and take three or four or five more samples, you can narrow it down and eliminate some of the tests you have to take,» she said.

On her second visit, Bolte took a blood sample himself and sent it for testing to a lab in Texas that he trusted implicitly.

Starting in three weeks, he and his colleagues will collect cutaneous bacteria from mountain yellow - legged frogs in the isolated Dusy basin area of the Sierras: «We'll go in with skin swabs, take samples, culture bacteria, grow it in the lab at San Francisco State, then wait a week, go back out and inoculate a bunch of frogs,» Vredenburg says.

A sample is taken from the production line to be analysed in a lab.

The sensor connects to a smartphone through Bluetooth, making it easy to use on the go — there's no need to take samples back to the lab.

They'll divide the thousands of samples among little plastic boxes to take back to their respective labs, which spread across North America, as the mammoths once did.

Back at the lab Lentini tested the idea, taking a dozen samples of window glass and heating them to 1400 degrees Fahrenheit in various ways — rapidly, slowly, some in an oven, some in an open flame.

A student of Rowbotham's who had just accepted a postdoc position in Raoult's lab in Marseille took the samples south with him.

In September 2015, the team took a 4 - square - centimeter patch of unblistered skin from the boy's groin and grew skin stem cells in the lab from that sample.

MIT biologist Eric Alm took fecal samples each day for nearly a year — often using a toilet in his Cambridge, Mass., lab.

After the city detected elevated lead in the Walters family's water, and she was refused help by MDEQ, Mrs. Walters took her case to EPA Region 5 employee Miguel Del Toral, who collaborated with our lab to sample her tap water.

It can take weeks or months to identify a novel virus, and much longer if the sample must be sent to a specialized lab, as the Bas - Congo virus was.

Traditionally, water was tested for contamination with bacteria by taking a sample and trying to grow the bacteria in the lab.

To more closely mimic outside the body what goes on within, scientists take small samples of a patient's cells — cancerous and benign — and remodel them in the lab.

During the Ebola outbreak in Africa in 2014, patients tested for the disease had to provide a blood sample fortesting in a specialist lab by highly trained staff., There are only a few of these facilities in the world, including Public Health England's Lab in Porton Down in the UK, with each diagnosis of the Ebola virus genome taking between5 - 8 hours to confilab by highly trained staff., There are only a few of these facilities in the world, including Public Health England's Lab in Porton Down in the UK, with each diagnosis of the Ebola virus genome taking between5 - 8 hours to confiLab in Porton Down in the UK, with each diagnosis of the Ebola virus genome taking between5 - 8 hours to confirm.

Since the geysers are ejecting material from the lake up into space, a probe could simply take a few passes through the plumes, sweep up samples and fly them back home for study in terrestrial labs.

At present, emergency responders who are characterizing potential radiological risk need to take an air sample and ship it to a radiochemistry lab after preliminary screening analysis.

Ward's lab team took skin tissue samples from her well - established psoriasis transgenic mouse model, called the KC - Tie2 mouse, and compared it to skin tissue samples of normal mice.

«Without your boss's acknowledgment, you must not take samples or data away from the lab.»

The scientists say their gadget provides a quicker diagnosis that today's typical method, in which a cell sample is taken and cultured in the lab to look for the presence of the Candida albicans fungus.

«You see the object on a monitor and then you can point and click and take a sample from a particular spot and the robot will go there,» said Facundo Fernandez, a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, whose lab led the study.

«Then I had to take the samples all the way across campus to the root lab to have them analyzed,» Hall says.

A summer internship taking water samples at a plant in Butte that her father had helped build «made me realize I did not want to spend my life in the lab,» she says.

But Hahn stresses that ethics prohibit taking blood samples from wild chimpanzees, and her own lab has only recently developed a way to quantify SIVcpz in fecal samples — which she sees as an important future experiment with the Gombe chimps.

After taking the samples back to the lab, the team sterilized the outside of the rocks, carved away their outer layers, then incubated the exposed samples in 65 °C waters similar to those infiltrating the sea floor at the site — poor in oxygen but rich in chemicals such as dissolved hydrogen, sulfates, acetates, methanol, and dimethyl sulfide.

But the In - Dx testing of urine samples, for example, produces positive results in two hours from start to finish versus the days it can take for equivalent hospital lab tests.

At the time of your blood draw, the genetic counselor will discuss with you the estimated length of time it will take the lab to analyze your sample.

The scientists took their samples back to the lab, sliced them lengthwise, and exposed layers laid down over nearly 500,000 years.

In these labs are scientists who will take care of storing samples in freezers and who will use them for any sort of analyses — like microscopic imaging or DNA extraction.

Of the thousands of samples processed, we have noticed two strategies that most labs take:

The team conducted tests on three different samples of cells aged in different ways: cells taken from aged donors, cells aged in culture in the lab, and those isolated from patients suffering from Hutchinson - Gilford progeria syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that ages sufferers at an accelerated rate.

Over a couple of hours I took a few blood samples and then simply sent it all to a third - party lab to be analyzed.

If you were to take a dust sample from any home and send it to a lab, you'd almost certainly find phthalates,» says Barrett.

I took a sample of my own poop and mailed it to a lab.

During follow - up visits, the study team also will take blood samples for lab testing to measure whether the vaccine is prompting an immune response sufficient to protect humans against Zika, the NIAID statement said.

Finding it in people's bodies meant taking tissue samples, so scientists mostly stuck to studying it in lab animals.

A doctor can also fail to get enough of a tissue, blood, or urine sample or take a sample from the wrong place, perhaps giving a false - negative result when disease is present, explains David S. Wilkinson, MD, PhD, professor and chair of the department of pathology at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, Va., and chair of the quality - practice committee for the College of American Pathologists, which accredits U.S. and foreign labs.

Kits usually take 3 to 5 days to reach the lab once you mail your samples.

The general protocol requires you to take a dose of iodine, collect your urine for 24 hours, and then send the sample off to a lab where they calculate your iodine level based on how much iodine you are spilling into your urine.

They harvest the honey and then take samples that are sent to independent labs.

Simply send in a saliva sample taken shortly after you wake, and EverlyWell's lab will provide an accurate measure of your levels of each hormone.