bioassay
IPA: baɪoʊæsˈeɪ
noun
- The analysis of the biological activity of a substance, with reference to a standard preparation, using a culture of living cells, or a living creature.
verb
- To carry out such an analysis.
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Examples of "bioassay" in Sentences
- Bioassays may be qualitative or quantitative.
- Computer programs can be used for bioassay evaluations.
- Thus the plant can be used as a bioassay for radiation.
- Mysids are also used as a bioassay for toxins in seawater.
- At the MRC Irwin wrote a series of important papers on bioassay.
- Novel yeast bioassay system for detection of androgenic compounds.
- Exposure to 90Sr can be tested by a bioassay, most commonly by urinalysis.
- Since then this elongation effect is being used for the bioassay of Leptomycin.
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