Yalow

Yalow definition - medical

Ya·low (yălˈō), Rosalyn Sussman Born 1921.

American biophysicist who in 1959 developed the radioimmunoassay (RIA) procedure, a highly precise method of measuring minute concentrations of biological substances in the body using radioactive-labeled material.

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