Method

Original definition: a test involving experiments on organisms.[5]

New definition: a procedure to experiment on an organism or material derived from an organism, or to produce or purify a substance(s) for such purpose.

Screen

Original definition: the sort of physical examination of the child which will recognize deviations from the normal, but which will not result in a final diagnosis.

New definition: A scalable biological or medical experimental method for surveying a group to enrich for likely candidates that can be confirmed with an assay.

Assay

Original definition: to compare the potency of the particular preparation test with that of a standard preparation of the same substance.

New definition: A biological or medical experimental method to compare samples to known negative and positive standards with high statistical accuracy.

Fabrication

New definition: A method to create or purify a new reagent.

HAT Assay

New definition: High-accuracy and high-throughput assay.