antigen

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Ferreira specializes in modifying the immune system using chimeric antigen receptors, or CARs.

From Science Daily • Mar. 2, 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

This method of antigen design and adenovirus delivery closely mirrors the approach used for the COVID-19 nasal vaccine.

From Science Daily • Feb. 4, 2026

But advanced prostate cancer has increased in recent years as fewer men receive prostate-specific antigen tests.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 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