mutant

We open in a post-apocalyptic Pasadena, following a hooded character through a dark landscape of burned out cars and mutant distractions to Stuart’s somehow still-open comic book store.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

"We put yeast Pex11 into our mutant plant cells to see if it could return the peroxisomes back to normal," Tharp said.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

Peter Nowell, a pathologist, argued in 1976 that cancers arise from a single mutant cell and then evolve, as offspring acquire new mutations and compete for dominance—a prediction that single-cell sequencing has dramatically confirmed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

More recently, he appeared in “Fallout” just long enough for his character to be mauled to death by a mutant bear.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

The invasion of mutant concrete-eating termites that brought the Berlin Wall down is definitely second place.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

The surface is now home to scavengers, soldiers, mutants, and ghouls, all doing their best to survive on spoiled food, brackish water, and whatever’s left in long-abandoned vending machines.

From Salon ● May 12, 2025

"It was a proper disaster, but it didn't cause strange glowing plants or mutants or dangerous cults to emerge."

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2025

He endorsed normal Senate candidates over lab-born mutants in swing-state primaries, and stopped feuding with old enemies in the name of party unity.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024

Unlike other heroes whose superpowers are the result of lab accidents or secret experiments, the X-Men are mutants: humans born with a special gene that gives them their various abilities.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024

But the cycle of sow / grow / harvest / sow would have selected immediately and unconsciously for the mutants.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond