Sentences with phrase «taken by biopsy»

Frozen sperm taken by biopsy from testicles in men with no sperm in their semen is as effective as fresh sperm taken by biopsy in helping couples conceive through in vitro fertilization (IVF), according to a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

«The convenience and ease of being able to use frozen sperm taken by biopsy in ICSI offers many advantages over fresh sperm,» said Kenan Omurtag, MD, the study's first author and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology.

Not exact matches

The company, named Modern Meadow, makes leather and, indeed, meat by taking skin or muscle samples from animals via biopsy and then growing them in vitro.

Right now such cancers are usually confirmed by way of a biopsy — a doctor literally removes tissue and sends it to a lab for analysis, which can take days.

«Liquid biopsies are far less invasive than traditional biopsies, a development that not only benefits our patients through a simplified diagnostic procedure but also by significantly enhanced analysis of samples taken,» said Dr. Stanley Hamilton, professor of Pathology and division head of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at MD Anderson, in a statement.

Family history and blood tests can indicate the possibility of coeliac disease, but diagnosis can only be confirmed by taking a biopsy of the small bowel and checking for damage.

A small bowel biopsy is taken to assess if there is damage caused by gluten.

They were able to make that determination by comparing biopsied tissue with tissue taken from a patient's prostate after it was later surgically removed.

Then the researchers, led by then - post-doc, now Oregon State University faculty member Matthew Robinson and colleagues, took biopsies from the volunteers» thigh muscles and compared the molecular makeup of their muscle cells to samples from sedentary volunteers.

Nearly all cancers are still diagnosed by doctors taking a sample of the tumour, a so - called biopsy, then slicing it thinly and staining it with two vegetable dyes used for more than 100 years.

The new «tumor in a dish» method begins by taking the cancerous tissue removed during surgery or biopsy, cutting it up into small pieces and putting them in a special collagen gel that maintains them as «organoids» that retain the three - dimensional structure of the original tumor and include supporting cells from the tumor's environment.

In the new study, Janke and his research group examined the DNA evidence taken from skin biopsies of 190 giraffes collected by Fennessy and team all across Africa, including regions of civil unrest.

Now, a group headed by Ramnik Xavier, a gastroenterologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, has collected fecal samples and taken biopsies of the lower part of the small intestine and rectum from 447 children who had just been diagnosed with Crohn's, and a control group of 221 kids who had noninflammatory abdominal symptoms, such as bloating and diarrhea.

Prompted by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a young Kenyan - born biologist named Nick Georgiadis embarked on what he called «a long and wonderful hike» across 10 African countries, taking biopsy - dart samples from 600 elephants.

Nicola Valeri at the Institute of Cancer Research in London and his team have shown this by taking 110 biopsies from tumours.

Investigators will check for off - target effects by taking liver biopsies from some patients and looking for DNA changes, Macrae says.

There are a few possibilities and trying each one by trial and error can be time consuming and expensive; at this point, I don't know if you have had a skin biopsy taken for histopathology as a board certified pathologist would be able to see the structure of the skin and to see any cells which may indicate inflammation etc... Also, allergy testing blood test may also be helpful too.

If the results of the scan appear to show a tumor, the veterinarian confirms it by taking a biopsy or by performing surgery to remove it.

The only way to diagnose the type of mammary mass is by taking a biopsy and sending it to the lab for analysis.

A definitive diagnosis of dwarfism can be made by taking bone biopsies and submitting the samples to a laboratory for microscopic evaluation by a veterinary pathologist.

If there is a diagnosis of TCC from biopsy taken by cystoscopy, then the Scottie will be eligible to be placed on a daily pill called Deramaxx, which is a drug similar to piroxicam.

The procedure of choice for diagnosing the underlying cause of canine colitis is a colonoscopy accompanied by the taking of multiple biopsies from different places of tissues lining the colon.

A specific tumor type can be suspected from its appearance on a CT or MRI, but can only be definitively identified by taking a sample of the tumor, either at surgery or by biopsy.

A diagnosis of skin cancer is made by taking a biopsy of the skin lesion and testing it to see if cancer cells are present.