How to Use neutralization in a Sentence

neutralization

noun
  • A salt is formed when an acid reacts with a base in the process of neutralization.
    Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 12 Feb. 2017
  • Why, then, does the binding and neutralization fall off?
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • The data won’t come from just one neutralization study.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The insertion in the NTD was able to finish the job, taking neutralization titers from roughly 60 to zero in a matter of days.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Santander Festival prizes given this year will come in the form of the neutralization of winning movies’ CO2 footprints.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Yet neutralization decreased sharply in the case of the strain in South Africa, known as B.1.351, according to a paper posted on the preprint server bioRxiv.
    Peter Loftus, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2021
  • This is not to say there are no escape variants that reduce binding and neutralization to the BG10-19 antibody.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • Just how much more effective was the neutralization after the booster?
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Oct. 2021
  • These fall in the same region as P1176F and may contribute to further neutralization escape.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • But by seven months, neutralization of omicron was found in only 55% of people.
    Macaela MacKenzie, SELF, 27 Jan. 2022
  • There were more neutralization antibodies found against the variants than with the standard version of the vaccine.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 May 2021
  • Fewer still—two out of those five—reached 80 percent neutralization or higher.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Even as neutralization data pour in, experts are also going to be studying how vaccines stand up to Omicron in the real world — a process that will take longer.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Dallas had under two minutes to erase a 13-point lead, needing two flags and a neutralization on the third flag for an extended period.
    Sean Collins, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2020
  • One approach would be to look at analogous cases, where neutralization also dropped by around the same amount, to see how effective vaccines were in those cases.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Blue Grass will use a different type of neutralization on some weapons and will destroy others in a closed detonation chamber.
    Dan Elliott, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • In a search for an Achilles’ heel for the virus, the scientific world is monitoring potential targets for virus neutralization.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The gold standard for doing that is called a virus neutralization assay, which combines human cells and live virus with a blood sample to see whether the sample contains antibodies that keep the virus from binding to the cells.
    Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The neutralization of American aircraft carriers would give China a freer hand in the Pacific.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2021
  • This is consistent with the distortion during cryo-electron microscopy and likely explains the lack of neutralization by the B6 antibody.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • The number and specifics of the mutations that the Omicron variant acquired led experts to anticipate a drop in neutralization activity.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 10 Dec. 2021
  • None of these controls demonstrated neutralization titers against Covid-19.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • Since only the prefusion form contains the most neutralization-sensitive binding sites, the vaccine was not effective.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Prefusion F also has additional neutralization target sites which are not yet named but shown in dark orange in Figure 3.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Seven months after the participants got their second dose, neutralization against Omicron was detected in only 55% of the blood samples.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The markers for neutralization measure how strongly antibodies block the virus from infecting cells.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The second affect is the chimera effect, this is what causes a kind of gravity simulation of gravity neutralization because you are stabilized in 3D space.
    Laraib Hashmi, Houston Chronicle, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Sera from patient 12 demonstrated the highest levels of neutralization.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Data from other neutralization studies are expected to be released soon, the result of a fast and furious global rally to understand the latest variant threat.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The research speculates that neutralization is preserved as the interaction between the antibody and the receptor occurs over so many contacts.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021

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