The phrase "a sample of tissue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical, scientific, or research contexts when referring to a small portion of biological material taken for analysis or examination.
Example: "The doctor ordered a sample of tissue to be analyzed for any signs of disease."
Alternatives: "a tissue specimen" or "a tissue sample".
In general, a biopsy is a sample of tissue.
Other times the doctor must take a sample of tissue and send it to a lab for evaluation.
The technique used to identify the Merkel cell polyoma virus eliminates known human molecular sequences from a sample of tissue, leaving unknown or nonhuman sequences that the scientists explore in seeking a possible infectious agent.
In 1873, however, G.H. Armauer Hansen, a physician working in a leprosy hospital in Bergen, Norway, discovered the leprosy bacillus in a sample of tissue from one of his patients.
Some months before she died, scientists captured Celia, took a sample of tissue from her ear, isolated viable cells from it, and froze them.
A sample of tissue taken from the last creature, named Celia, a few months before she died has facilitated previous attempts to revitalise bucardos, writes Oliver Morton, briefings editor of The Economist.
In order to demonstrate that the delivered power is sufficient to ablate hard and soft biological tissue, a sample of porcine tissue (bone and muscle) was used.
In conventional fluorescence microscopy, scientists may inject a sample of biological tissue with particles filled with fluorescent dyes.
Following incubation, excess aCSF was carefully removed from slices, a sample of striatal tissue (7 10 mg) was weighed, frozen on dry ice and then stored at then stored at −80 °C.
A sample of trophoblastic tissue was taken for Western blot test to evaluate the level of phospho-ERK and Akt (active forms) proteins in trophoblastic tissue.
Previous research has shown that dogs can detect cancers, including those of the bladder, breast, bowel and skin, when given a sample of malignant tissue.
