How to Use recombinant in a Sentence

recombinant

adjective
  • Could fruit flies be used to produce recombinant proteins at scale?
    — John Cumbers, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • It’s known as a recombinant variant, or a strain made up of two other variants.
    — Dallas News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • His persona is as recombinant and pleasing as his playing style.
    — Kevin Craft, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Similar kinds of recombinant variants have evolved in the wild.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The Shingrix vaccine is a recombinant vaccine and doesn’t use the live virus.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Novavax adds another new kind to that list, what’s called a recombinant vaccine.
    — Rod McGuirk, The Denver Post, 26 May 2020
  • First, recombinant strains that are candidates for a vaccine have to be created in a lab.
    — Michael Reschke, Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2020
  • As a mix of two existing variants, XE is what’s called a recombinant virus.
    — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • The Novavax recombinant protein vaccine should be available soon.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is known as a recombinant vector vaccine.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2020
  • It was convened in 1975 to discuss recombinant DNA, a then-new kind of genome editing.
    — Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Bio-Techne develops recombinant proteins used by researchers to study human diseases and develop drugs.
    — Sasirekha Subramanian, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • The entire process in fruit flies yields recombinant protein 30 times faster than traditional bioreactor systems.
    — John Cumbers, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In the study, the scientists traced back a single peptide using recombinant DNA techniques.
    — Nick Stockton, Wired News, 11 June 2015
  • 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
  • In vitro fertilization, stents and recombinant DNA human insulin were still years away.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For most pathogens, this approach has long since been supplanted by a technology called recombinant protein vaccines, where a single piece of the virus—a viral protein—is grown in a laboratory.
    — Stephen Buranyi, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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 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
  • 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 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
  • 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

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