antigen
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As Jill explains in an early chapter, doctors don’t typically recommend prostate-specific antigen screenings for men over 70, given that cancer spreads slowly at that age and isn’t thought to affect life expectancy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Biden’s doctors didn’t provide prostate-specific antigen screening, which produces a PSA score that is used to help detect prostate cancer.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
In a Phase 1 trial, 14 of 17 patients showed at least a 50% reduction in prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, a protein that indicates the presence of prostate cancer at elevated levels.
From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026
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 • Feb. 4, 2026
When the connection is made, and a particular lymphocyte with a particular receptor is brought into the presence of the particular antigen, one of the greatest small spectacles in nature occurs.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing antigen
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