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Six example sentences with antigen, each labelled with its topic.
A vaccine presents a harmless antigen so that defences learn to recognise the real pathogen years before meeting it.
Medicine
Blood groups differ because of which antigen sits on the red cell surface, which is why transfusions must be matched.
Science
Hard training weeks blunt the reaction to any new antigen, which is one reason athletes catch colds after a big race.
Fitness
The rapid test strip carries antibodies that grab the viral antigen, and a colored line appears within fifteen minutes.
Technology
Landsteiner's 1901 work on the antigen that defines blood groups turned transfusion from a gamble into a routine procedure.
History
The startup's first product was a cheap antigen test for a cattle disease that farmers could read in the barn.
Startups
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