cross-react
Americanverb (used without object)
Example Sentences
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"The fragmentome can serve as a foundation for building different classifiers for different diseases, and importantly, these classifiers are disease-specific and do not cross-react," Annapragada says.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2026
But the problem with antibodies for rhinoviruses is that they don’t cross-react from one virus to another, so you’d need a vaccine with 180 different virus proteins in it to produce an effective antibody-producing virus.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025
Most affected babies only react to a single food, although some foods cross-react.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2023
The antibodies to this pathogen’s M protein cross-react with an antigenic component of heart myosin, a major contractile protein of the heart that is critical to its normal function.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
This classification system is biologically relevant, as natural host antibodies that recognize one HA or NA subtype will generally not cross-react with other HA and NA subtypes.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
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