adjuvant
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One side displays adjuvant molecules arranged at carefully controlled nanometer distances, while the opposite side presents selected antigens such as peptides or proteins from tumors or pathogens.
From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026
Nevertheless, negative results for breast cancer drug candidate giredestrant as a first-line treatment mean the majority of its opportunity is in the so-called adjuvant setting, when drugs are given after tumor-removal surgery, the analysts add.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
The adjuvant is a substance that activates the immune system to recognize the antigen, treat it as a foreign intruder and eliminate it.
From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2025
That’s the standard approach for most vaccines, because the antibody responses that you get are actually stronger with a protein and an adjuvant than with an mRNA.
From Slate • Oct. 8, 2025
Voss adopts almost the words of Quintilian, "Manus non modo loquentem adjuvant, sed ipsæ pene loqui videntur," while Cresollius calls the hand "the minister of reason and wisdom ... without it there is no eloquence."
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
