Elizabeth Blackwell was accepted by accident at Hobart College (then Geneva Medical College). The dean and faculty that evaluated potential students put her candidacy up for a vote with the 150 men currently enrolled.
An assay is an investigative (analytic) procedure in laboratory medicine, pharmacology, environmental biology and molecular biology for qualitatively assessing or quantitatively measuring the presence or amount or the functional activity of a target entity (the analyte). Enzyme activity assay: Enzymes may be tested by their highly repeating activity on a large number of substrates when loss of a substrate or the making of a product may have a measurable attribute like color or absorbance at a particular wavelength or light or chemiluminiscence or electrical/redox activity.
(third-person singular simple present assays, present participle assaying, simple past and past participle assayed). 1  To attempt (something). [ 2 from 14th c.]. ( 3 archaic, intransitive) To try, attempt (to do something). [ 4 14th-19th c.]. 5  To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.).erb. An assay is defined as the finding of how much metal is in an alloy. An example of an assay is a scientific look into the compilation of a substance that is believed to have gold in it.