Background and Education. Physician and educator Elizabeth Blackwell was born on February 3, 1821, in Bristol, England. Brought up in a liberal household that stressed education, Blackwell eventually broke into the field of medicine to become the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States.
â¢ ASSAY (noun) The noun ASSAY has 4 senses: 1. an appraisal of the state of affairs. 2. a substance that is undergoing an analysis of its components. 3. a written report of the results of an analysis of the composition of some substance.
Depending on how many targets or analytes are being measured: 1  Usual assay are simple or single target assays which is usually the default unless it is called multiplex. 2  Multiplex assays are used to simultaneously measure the presence, concentration, activity, or quality of multiple analytes in a single test.