Word: assaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general's gift of being the man you automatically follow," says Richard Briers, who plays Bardolph in the film Henry and will assay King Lear in the Renaissance's tour of the U.S. next year. Branagh needed that royal self-assurance to build a major acting company and mount a large film. He will need more of it to sustain his career at its current velocity. "Quite soon," says Terry Hands, the RSC's artistic director, "Ken must decide whether he will be an admin man or a great actor. If a leading actor is also running the whole show...
...results of a genetic assay should be held in strict confidence...
...took just 9.79 sec. to run the 100, but it took Johnson nearly an hour and six cans of low-alcohol beer to fulfill his requirement. At the Doping Control Center of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, it took twelve hours more to assay the day's samples, to run them through the mazy innards of the lab's instruments. When the last sample left the hair-thin glass tubes of the gas chromatograph and the mass spectrometer, where all molecules have their fingerprints taken, just one positive result had turned...
Henrietta, another sophomore, says she worked in a research lab injecting mice and pipetting "stuff into each plate of assay material." And then she injected a few more mice and pipetted some more stuff...
Another and more immediate reason mandatory testing will not work, according to many researchers, is that the results of the blood test most commonly administered can be misleading. A positive result on the ELISA (for enzyme- linked immunosorbent assay) screening test means that an individual has been exposed to the AIDS virus and has developed antibodies to it, not necessarily that a person has -- or will fall victim to -- the disease. Scientists assume, but have not proved, that those who test positive are still carrying the virus and can transmit it. Moreover, additional testing is needed to confirm a positive...