How to Use blood serum in a Sentence

blood serum

noun

• About one-fifth of the weight of your blood serum is made up of this whitish gunk.
  — Brendan Borrell, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2021
• Researchers checked blood serum for the main form of vitamin D in blood.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 June 2018
• The same was true when the researchers used blood serum from people who had been vaccinated.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
• So far, Roukes has used this system to measure the masses of gold nanoparticles and three proteins found in the blood serum of cows.
  — Aline Reynolds, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2010
• In the past month, as these tests have reached the market, researchers have launched large-scale studies, known as sero-surveys (sero is short for serology, the study of blood serum).
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 28 Apr. 2020
• If the sum of PFAS found in blood serum or plasma is 20 nanograms per milliliter or higher, the patient is at the greatest risk of adverse health effects, the committee said.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 28 July 2022
• Their blood serum samples are then archived in the Department of Defense Serum Repository and can be retested for other pathogens.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• The tests work by measuring the level of antibodies in a sample of blood serum (hence their other name, serological tests).
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 25 Mar. 2020
• Lab tests on omicron have already indicated that the blood serum of vaccinated people is less able to stop the virus from invading cells.
  — al, 24 Dec. 2021
• Lab tests on Omicron have already indicated that the blood serum of vaccinated people is less able to stop the virus from invading cells.
  — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• But with a constant stream of DMT supplied to a user and blood serum levels of the molecule regulated, that trip can last hours or even days—seemingly an eternity.
  — Justin Higginbottom, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023
• The MDDScore is an aggregate value, calculated from the levels of 9 metabolites in blood serum.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2012
• However, doctors during the Spanish flu pandemic did treat patients with blood serum from patients who had recovered from the virus.
  — Fox News, 24 Mar. 2020
• Those with higher blood serum levels of vitamin D had between one-third and one-fifth of the risk of developing diabetes compared to those with lower levels of the nutrient.
  — Amy Capetta, Woman's Day, 19 Oct. 2018
• In recent days, Gupta and Kemp have begun using blood serum from vaccinated people to determine if the variant may weaken the potency of the vaccines.
  — Benjamin Mueller, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2021
• The study aimed to estimate the scale of past infections in a population by testing blood serum samples from a pool of people for coronavirus antibodies.
  — Tara John, CNN, 29 Dec. 2020
• Eye drops made from your own blood (autologous blood serum drops) are an option for treating severe dry eye symptoms that don’t respond to other treatments, according to the Mayo Clinic.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 13 Dec. 2018
• The indictment filed Wednesday states Keese was driving under a suspension and had 50 nanograms or more of cocaine metabolite per milliliter of his whole blood, blood serum or plasma.
  — Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 26 Feb. 2020
• Karger said one reason the U was selected for SeroNet was that its test was not only capable of identifying antibodies, but assessing the amount of them in blood serum.
  — Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
• But the researchers did pinpoint four metabolic compounds with neurological effects that were far less common in the blood serum, cerebrospinal fluid and stool of the mice with impaired microbiomes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Dec. 2019
• Such experiments involve taking antibodies from the blood serum of vaccinated people and adding more and more of a virus to see how well the antibodies attach.
  — Jv Chamary, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• The treatment involves the intravenous application of blood serum from recovered patients in the hopes their antibodies can help kick-start a patient's immune response.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 4 July 2020
• When patients have met criteria for getting tested, local physicians have taken a sample — involving nasal and throat specimens, as well as the patient’s blood serum — and shipped it to the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta.
  — Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 5 Feb. 2020
• Antibody tests are based on blood serum and assess whether people’s immune systems have reacted to the virus, indicating a prior infection.
  — Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 15 Sep. 2020
• Cochran said that first responders, which included the county’s corrections officers who work inside the jail, received the blood serum tests to detect the coronavirus antibodies.
  — al, 7 May 2020
• Just how do allowable levels in drinking water compare to recommended blood serum levels?
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 28 July 2022
• Pfizer-BioNTech have already done studies testing blood serum from people vaccinated with their original shot against some of these variants, and found that the immune response triggered by the two doses is still quite protective.
  — Alice Park, Time, 25 Feb. 2021
• Theel has run Mayo’s serology (blood serum) lab for eight years, but never experienced such intense public interest, even when her lab pioneered testing for mosquito-borne Zika virus.
  — Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• But this report released Wednesday by the Environmental Working Group shows more than 120 different forever chemicals were found in the blood serum or bodies of birds, tigers, monkeys, pandas, horses, cats, otters and other mammals.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
• The portable analyzer, which works with a small microfluidic device, has detected an anti-avian influenza virus antibody in blood serum, according to a statement released by Hokkaido University.
  — Fox News, 21 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024