immunofocus
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immunofocus (third-person singular simple present immunofocuses or immunofocusses, present participle immunofocusing or immunofocussing, simple past and past participle immunofocused or immunofocussed)
- (immunology) To engineer antigens in order to produce antibodies with desired characteristics
- 1989, Journal für Hirnforschung, page 314:
- Attention was primary antiserum by non-immune serum all immunofocussed on neurocytes.
- 2020 June, Robert J. Ragotte, Matthew K. Higgins, Simon J. Draper, “The RH5-CyRPA-Ripr Complex as a Malaria Vaccine Target”, in Trends in Parasitology, volume 36, number 6:
- Continued efforts to understand and map the most antibody-susceptible epitopes should enable the development of a highly immunofocussed vaccine, designed to neutralize specific and vulnerable regions of the complex.