How to Use adjuvant in a Sentence
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Swapping adjuvants, or even adjuvant sources, isn’t trivial, Dr. Omer said.
—Katherine J. Wu, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
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Sims said Sanders will need adjuvant treatment with radioactive iodine and long-term continuing care.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022
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An adjuvant component for the vaccine is required and provided by Novavax, a biotechnology company in the US and Sweden.
—Adrian Hill, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2021
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Sanofi will provide the experimental vaccine, while Glaxo will contribute its adjuvant technology, which may allow more doses of the shot to be produced.
—Fortune, 15 Apr. 2020
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The British pharmaceutical giant opted to partner with a number of companies using its adjuvant technology in the creation of a vaccine.
—Fortune, 12 Mar. 2021
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Disadvantages On the other hand, protein subunit vaccines require adjuvant to boost the immune response, which can have its own potential adverse effects.27 And their immunity may not be as long-lasting compared to vaccines that use the whole virus.
—Verywell Health, 22 Feb. 2023
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Chemotherapy is often used as a last resort if other therapies are ineffective, or may be used as an adjuvant therapy to immunotherapy or targeted therapy.
—Seraphina Seow, Health.com, 23 June 2021
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Sanofi will combine its experimental coronavirus vaccine with GlaxoSmithKline’s adjuvant technology, which may allow more doses of a shot to be produced, the companies said Tuesday.
—BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2020
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These findings led a National Institutes of Health consensus panel to recommend adjuvant chemotherapy for most patients, a practice that has contributed to declining breast cancer mortality.
—Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 4 June 2018
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Recognizing the need for a comprehensive strategy, the funding is going to multidisciplinary groups with expertise in virology and immunology, immunogen design, and innovative vaccine and adjuvant platforms and technologies.
—Laura Defrancesco, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
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Common cancer treatments like chemotherapy and external or internal radiation therapies are considered adjuvant therapies.
—Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 2023
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Swapping adjuvants, or even adjuvant sources, isn’t trivial, Dr. Omer said.
—Katherine J. Wu, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
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Sims said Sanders will need adjuvant treatment with radioactive iodine and long-term continuing care.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022
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An adjuvant component for the vaccine is required and provided by Novavax, a biotechnology company in the US and Sweden.
—Adrian Hill, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2021
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Sanofi will provide the experimental vaccine, while Glaxo will contribute its adjuvant technology, which may allow more doses of the shot to be produced.
—Fortune, 15 Apr. 2020
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The British pharmaceutical giant opted to partner with a number of companies using its adjuvant technology in the creation of a vaccine.
—Fortune, 12 Mar. 2021
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Disadvantages On the other hand, protein subunit vaccines require adjuvant to boost the immune response, which can have its own potential adverse effects.27 And their immunity may not be as long-lasting compared to vaccines that use the whole virus.
—Verywell Health, 22 Feb. 2023
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Chemotherapy is often used as a last resort if other therapies are ineffective, or may be used as an adjuvant therapy to immunotherapy or targeted therapy.
—Seraphina Seow, Health.com, 23 June 2021
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Sanofi will combine its experimental coronavirus vaccine with GlaxoSmithKline’s adjuvant technology, which may allow more doses of a shot to be produced, the companies said Tuesday.
—BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2020
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These findings led a National Institutes of Health consensus panel to recommend adjuvant chemotherapy for most patients, a practice that has contributed to declining breast cancer mortality.
—Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 4 June 2018
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Recognizing the need for a comprehensive strategy, the funding is going to multidisciplinary groups with expertise in virology and immunology, immunogen design, and innovative vaccine and adjuvant platforms and technologies.
—Laura Defrancesco, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
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Common cancer treatments like chemotherapy and external or internal radiation therapies are considered adjuvant therapies.
—Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 2023
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And in some cases, there are things called adjuvants, chemicals to boost the response.
—CBS News, 13 May 2020
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The adjuvant in this vaccine is MF59, an oil-in-water emulsion of squalene oil.
—Anne P. Kim, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2020
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One plant makes the protein antigen, and another makes the adjuvant.
—Sarah Jane Tribble, Quartz, 20 July 2021
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The team at Boston Children’s is not the only group testing adjuvants.
—Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2020
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The mRNA Covid vaccines contain an adjuvant in the form of lipid nanoparticles, the flu vaccine doesn’t.
—Megan Molteni, STAT, 26 Oct. 2022
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This is harvested and mixed with an adjuvant -- an immune booster --based on saponin, found in soap bark trees.
—Maggie Fox, CNN, 24 Nov. 2020
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The plan is to marry its VLP to an adjuvant, with the goal of providing vaccine doses to the greatest number of people.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 9 July 2020
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But the adjuvant caused ulcers at the injection site, so it was dropped from later vaccines.
—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 13 Aug. 2020
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The second part of the vaccine is a substance called an adjuvant, which is made out of a molecule found in tree bark and food additives.
—Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 22 June 2020
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The vaccine includes an adjuvant, a compound that boosts the response the vaccine triggers.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 3 May 2023
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The as yet unnamed vaccine contains the squalene adjuvant MF59, which is sourced from a variety of shark species.
—Justin Meneguzzi, National Geographic, 13 Nov. 2020
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One plant makes the protein antigen, and another makes the Matrix-M adjuvant.
—Sarah Jane Tribble, baltimoresun.com, 19 July 2021
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What makes Shingrix so much better is the inclusion of a substance called an adjuvant that boosts the body’s immune response to the vaccine.
—Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
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The additive, called an adjuvant, prevents the formation of dicamba acid, which can evaporate off of plants and drift on the wind.
—Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2020
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Novavax’s adjuvant is derived from the bark of an evergreen tree native to Chile.
—Peter Loftus, WSJ, 14 June 2021
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But Ontario, which used a different vaccine with the AS03 adjuvant, did not, according to a study there.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 5 July 2018
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The Sanofi vaccine is combined with an adjuvant — a compound that enhances the immune response to the vaccine — produced by GSK.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 3 Sep. 2020
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The shots also contain a component, called an adjuvant, to boost the immune response.
—Peter Loftus, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2020
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The vaccine is given with an adjuvant — a compound that boosts the immune response the vaccine generates — that is made by GSK.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 19 May 2021
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After isolating the virus spike protein from the yeast and adding an adjuvant, which helps trigger an immune response, the vaccine was ready for use.
—Maureen Ferran, The Conversation, 19 Jan. 2022
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Its adjuvant, called AS01, is derived from the Chilean soapbark tree and has also been used at a higher dose in the company's Shingrix vaccine.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 3 May 2023
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Another example of an adjuvant added to some vaccines is aluminum salts, per the CDC.
—Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 19 Oct. 2020
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Then Novavax adds its adjuvant, based on saponin, a compound found in soap bark trees that stimulates the immune system (see graphic, above).
—Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 3 Nov. 2020
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One is Fluad, a vaccine made using an adjuvant, which helps create a stronger immune response in the body and first became available last year.
—Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2017
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Squalene is used to create an adjuvant, which helps a vaccine produce a strong immune response.
—David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2020
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The 77% efficacy against malaria dipped to 74% in children who received the malaria vaccine with a lower dose of adjuvant.
—Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 23 Apr. 2021
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The other is an adjuvant, an ingredient that helps create a stronger immune response, and is licensed for adults 65 and older.
—Fox News, 29 Sep. 2016
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The vaccine also includes a new adjuvant — meant to boost the effect on the immune system — that was developed by the National Institutes of Health.
—Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2021
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An adjuvant, a vaccine ingredient that revs up the immune system, is added.
—Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2022
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The vaccine also contains an adjuvant, an ingredient used to rev up the immune system.
—Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
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