The phrase "a brain sample" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to medical, scientific, or research discussions, particularly when referring to a specimen taken for analysis.
Example: "The researchers collected a brain sample to study the effects of the new drug on neural activity."
Alternatives: "a cerebral specimen" or "a neural sample."
Before the veterinarian could take a brain sample, plant officials refused to keep the carcass.
(The testing began only in October, when the government starting paying $10 a brain sample).
The article said a federal inspector had started to take a brain sample but was ordered not to by the regional headquarters of the Agriculture Department in Austin, Tex.
In the second case, news reports said a department veterinarian had started to take a brain sample from a staggering cow he thought had brain disease, but was overruled by a regional officer.
Professor Linda Gorman and once of her students examine a brain sample in the neuroscience lab.
Next, the team studied a brain sample from a child who had died from cancer who was treated with methotrexate and another child who had died from a brain tumor, but had no methotrexate.
Given that the CCDS dataset represents the entire transcriptome, and the RNA-Seq data obtained for this study derives from sequencing a human brain sample, we cannot therefore expect a coverage figure near 100%.
Instead, we ran HMMSplicer on the human dataset analyzed in the SpliceMap publication [25], a set of 23,412,226 paired end reads of 50 nt each from a human brain sample (GEO Accession number GSE19166).
The project has received 1.5 million RMB from STCSM and has led to the establishment of a comprehensive brain sample bank, the first of its kind in Shanghai.
Twenty-seven of them were negative by ELISA (designed to detect proteinase-resistant PrP) at the level of the obex but positive in a pooled brain sample, and the majority carried PrP genotypes associated with scrapie susceptibility.
In this study, we developed a method using global gene expression data to accurately determine the age of a normal brain sample.
