antigen
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Using shared features of these viral proteins, they engineered an optimized antigen, the portion of the virus that prompts an immune response.
From Science Daily
When they detect danger, they process fragments of abnormal proteins and present them as antigens to T cells, which then seek out and destroy diseased or cancerous cells.
From Science Daily
But advanced prostate cancer has increased in recent years as fewer men receive prostate-specific antigen tests.
They become "chimeric antigen receptor T-cells" - or CAR T-cells - and their numbers are greatly expanded in the lab to make millions of copies.
From BBC
Illumination with red light is designed to rupture the cell, releasing cancer antigens that may activate the body’s immune system to fight the cancer.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
