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- noun A
dissection using amicroscope and very fine instruments
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The institute's massive mapping effort began in 2003, using laser microdissection and high-throughput informatics to extract data from thin shavings of rodential gray matter.
The 2007 Rave Awards 2007
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In the 1960s, microdissection procedures revealed evidence of a system of extremely fine ducts that correspond to acupuncture meridians.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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In the 1960s, microdissection procedures revealed evidence of a system of extremely fine ducts that correspond to acupuncture meridians.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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By microdissection he reaches anatomical structures difficult of access, uses advanced teletechnique for stimulation and recording, and employs high magnification stroboscopic microscopy for making apparent complex membrane movements, the amplitudes of which are measured in thousandths of the millimeter.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1961 - Presentation Speech 1964
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Lyons was a crackpot with a plausible line of chatter, enough of a technique at microdissection to compel respect, and a real and commendable eagerness to explore his idea right down to the bottom.
Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957
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The slides are then subjected to laser capture microdissection LCM; technicians and expert anatomists work together to draw regions of interest on a computer screen connected to an LCM microscope, then a laser precisely cuts the delineated areas and these fall into a small plastic tube.
Wired Top Stories Jonah Lehrer 2011
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The post holder will develop a suitable protocol for laser capture microdissection of infected tissues and carry out comparative transcriptional profiling of rhizobial infection threads and arbusculated cells using deep sequencing and microarray-based approaches in order to catalogue the transcriptome of the infected cell.
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Our results demonstrate that this novel approach for cDNA synthesis has valuable utility for application of ultra-high throughput technologies, such as whole transcriptome sequencing using 454 technology, to very small biological samples comprised of tens of cells as might be obtained via approaches like laser microdissection.
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Laser capture microdissection (LCM) has successfully isolated pure cell populations from tissue sections and the combination of LCM with standard genomic and proteomic methods has revolutionized molecular analysis of complex tissue.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Shuyang Wang 2010
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MMI laser microdissection system, and various widefield fluorescence microscopes.
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