adjuvant

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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

To find an adjuvant that could make Cryptococcus more vulnerable to treatment, Wright's team screened thousands of compounds from McMaster's extensive chemical library.

From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2026

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

The new vaccine combines the traditional pertussis antigens with an innovative adjuvant called T-vant, which boosts the body's immune response specifically in the respiratory tract.

From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024

Patience is not a prominent gift of our four-handed relatives, but compensating nature has endowed them with the genius of self-help and its adjuvant talents,—observation, causality, imitativeness, covetousness, and self-asserting pluck.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various