How to Use recombinant in a Sentence

recombinant

adjective

• The Shingrix vaccine is a recombinant vaccine and doesn’t use the live virus.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 21 Nov. 2023
• It’s known as a recombinant variant, or a strain made up of two other variants.
  — Dallas News, 4 Jan. 2023
• As a mix of two existing variants, XE is what’s called a recombinant virus.
  — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2022
• Could fruit flies be used to produce recombinant proteins at scale?
  — John Cumbers, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Similar kinds of recombinant variants have evolved in the wild.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2022
• First, recombinant strains that are candidates for a vaccine have to be created in a lab.
  — Michael Reschke, Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2020
• The next step was to place both the phosphotyrosine and the analog at specific sites in recombinant proteins, by swapping out a codon.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 June 2017
• His persona is as recombinant and pleasing as his playing style.
  — Kevin Craft, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2022
• Novavax adds another new kind to that list, what’s called a recombinant vaccine.
  — Rod McGuirk, The Denver Post, 26 May 2020
• In the study, the scientists traced back a single peptide using recombinant DNA techniques.
  — Nick Stockton, Wired News, 11 June 2015
• The high-dose shot contains four times the amount of antigen – that is, the protein molecule identified with the virus – to trigger a stronger immune response, while the recombinant shot contains three times the amount of antigen.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2023
• The coalition is in favor of greater adoption of recombinant Factor C (rFC), a synthetic alternative to the blood.
  — Frank Kummer, Star Tribune, 8 Nov. 2020
• The newer shingles vaccine, a two-dose recombinant vaccine with the brand name Shingrix, became available in 2017 and is very effective.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 7 June 2022
• Collage, montage and the quick-and-dirty efficiency of recombinant forms are driven by the romantic, Robin Hood-like efforts of the copyleft movement.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 28 Jan. 2007
• This Sanofi vaccine, called a recombinant protein vaccine, will be used with an adjuvant — a compound that boosts the immune system’s response — made by GSK.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 24 Sep. 2020
• The boost contained a recombinant version of the surface protein mixed with an immune system booster, or adjuvant, called alum.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 2 Feb. 2020
• So far, no cases of the recombinant variant have been reported in any other country, including the United States.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2022
• The company sees the potential of the recombinant vaccine to work as a sort of universal booster shot, one that can, unlike some of the other Covid vaccines, be kept at fridge temperature.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 1 Oct. 2021
• The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is known as a recombinant vector vaccine.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2020
• In other countries, the recombinant variant XBB has been rising quickly and appears to be fueling a new wave of cases in Singapore.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 20 Oct. 2022
• The most effective way to prevent shingles is to get vaccinated with the recombinant zoster vaccine called Shingrix, Szema said.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 25 May 2023
• Other flu vaccines are only approved for adults, such as the recombinant influenza vaccine (RIV), which is approved for people aged 18 years and older.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• For example, the recombinant influenza vaccine Flublok Quadrivalent, which does not use viruses grown in eggs, is suitable for those 18 years and older.
  — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2020
• The variant is a recombinant (fusion) of different Omicron variants and has nearly doubled in prevalence over the past week representing close to 41% of new cases.
  — Steve Brozak, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• Sanofi hopes to have readouts by the end of this year on the Phase 3 trial of its recombinant vaccine as a primary Covid vaccine, as well as results of ongoing trials testing the Sanofi jab as a booster for other vaccines.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 1 Oct. 2021
• The city may need further genomic investigation to determine whether a new variant or the recombinant XE variant is at play.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2022
• Enter: recombinant tropoelastin, a precursor (or building block) of elastin that’s identical to what’s found in human tissues.
  — Jolene Edgar, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Dec. 2022
• In vitro fertilization, stents and recombinant DNA human insulin were still years away.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2023
• Biotechnology was in a similar position in the early 1980s as research in recombinant DNA began to yield new medicines, pesticides, crops and more.
  — WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
• Another hit came in the 1990s when a national controversy erupted over the practice of injecting dairy cows with rBGH — recombinant bovine growth hormone.
  — jsonline.com, 7 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024