germinal

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Viola also performed in avant-garde composer David Tudor’s germinal musical production, “Rainforest.”

From Los Angeles Times

During an infection, our lymph nodes and spleen sprout cellular cradles called germinal centers that allow B cells to hone their antibodies to be more effective against an attacking pathogen.

From Science Magazine

But first those memory cells get trained in immune system boot camps called germinal centers, learning to do more than just make copies of their original antibodies.

From Seattle Times

In immune system boot camps called germinal centers, they also mutate antibody-producing genes to test out a range of those virus fighters, explained University of Pennsylvania immunologist John Wherry.

From Seattle Times

For example, Shiv Pillai, an immunologist at Harvard Medical School, studies lymph nodes and their germinal centers, where B cells refine antibodies to a specific pathogen.

From National Geographic