marker

Example Sentences

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Walking as few as 5,000 steps a day has been shown to delay markers of cognitive decline by seven years on average.

From The Wall Street Journal

So I’ll need to walk downhill and uphill again before I reach my next marker.

From Literature

This shift is especially important because it makes the therapy 'antigen-independent', meaning it does not rely on identifying specific cancer cell markers.

From Science Daily

This marker plays an important role in helping the immune system remember past threats and respond to them again.

From Science Daily

Researchers led by a team at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have identified biological markers that appear in the earliest stages of Parkinson's disease, before major damage occurs in the brain.

From Science Daily