Sentence examples for attenuate it from inspiring English sources

If the DEN-2 Tonga/74 parent virus is naturally attenuated to some degree, only a small incremental increase in attenuation might be required to satisfactorily attenuate it for humans.

The general practice was to isolate a disease organism, figure out how to keep it alive in the laboratory, then weaken or "attenuate" it by passing it over and over through a series of cells, typically from chicken embryos, until it could no longer reproduce in humans but could still elicit an immune response.

Pasteur was the first to use this technique, passaging rabies virus in rabbits in order to attenuate it for dogs and humans (Plotkin 2011).

It is the achievement of clarity, of focus of mind, which may indeed intensify what is felt rather than attenuate it (though typically it does not).

Why does lipid raft disruption amplify G-protein signaling in some cells but attenuate it in others [24], [25]?

Non-caveolae rafts with their small size and cell surface coverage amplify G-protein signaling in neuronal cells, while caveolae with their relatively larger size and membrane coverage may attenuate it in CHO cells.

"This draft does not shred the existing policy; it merely attenuates it somewhat," said Mr. Aftergood, who made the draft public last week in Secrecy News, his Internet publication.

If the design parameters of the TMD are selected wrongly, it may accelerate the vibration of the system instead of attenuating it.

This WLS can transmit light without greatly attenuating it because there is a clad layer outside of the fiber as well as an optical fiber.

We found that administration of OP at low dose (3 μg/kg) enhanced LTM, whereas a dose of 60 μg/kg attenuated it.

We demonstrated that micropattern alignment parallel to the flow direction enhanced flow-resistant EC adhesion, while micropattern alignment perpendicular to the flow direction attenuated it.