affinity

In a sentence

Six example sentences with affinity, each labelled with its topic.

• The new antibody binds with such high affinity that a single dose kept the marker suppressed for eleven weeks.

  Medicine

• The assay ranked forty candidates by affinity, and only three held their antigen tightly enough to be worth another round.

  Science

• The biotech firm's whole pitch rests on an antibody with ten times the affinity of anything already approved for that antigen.

  Startups

• The lab's software predicts antibody affinity from sequence alone, ranking candidates before anyone pipettes a single sample.

  Technology

• The pharmaceutical firm licensed the antibody largely because its affinity for the target antigen beat every rival on file.

  Business

• Immunologists in the 1930s could only estimate affinity, since the first assays measured whether antibodies bound at all, not how tightly.

  History

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