Sentence examples for first manipulated to from inspiring English sources

To insert components of pL452 into the bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC), the vector was first manipulated to include regions flanking the 5′ and 3′ ends of Visc-2 by PCR.

The work of Chu and Kita (2011) stands out as an example of this methodology: the authors first manipulated between subjects whether participants were encouraged to gesture on a Shepard and Metzler-style block rotation task.

This spring, after 10 months of testing, the aquaculture company HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries created what it calls "sea-flavored" tilapia, the first farmed fish manipulated to taste like a wild fish.

However, some of them were performed using a two-phase method, in which, first, the connectors were contaminated with a single known microorganism (such as S. aureus or S. epidermidis, which is commonly associated to catheter infection) at different concentrations and, second, they were manipulated to instill contaminated infusion fluids [3],[3],[3],[3],[3]],[3]].

The second shape parameter was manipulated to yield rotation-added tuning curves with bandwidth changes of 40° (20° on each half of the tuning curve) for cells preferring close to lateral translations ([340°:20°], [160°:200°]).

In the third study, task difficulty was manipulated to produce different error rates without altering certainty.

Critics also say menthol levels have been manipulated to attract underage first-time smokers.

To find out if the difference in mating frequency between N2 and HW hermaphrodites might represent an active process, we first manipulated the arena size of the assay.