How to Use recombinant in a Sentence

recombinant

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • This recombinant virus expresses several new genes, in addition to M159, that may have enhanced the virulence of rabbitpox in hares.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • The entire process in fruit flies yields recombinant protein 30 times faster than traditional bioreactor systems.
    John Cumbers, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The product also relies on recombinant protein technology that Sanofi uses to make flu vaccines and an adjuvant from Glaxo to enhance the immune response.
    Fortune, 23 Feb. 2022

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