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"We've converted vaccine development from being reactive to being future proof. Our vaccines will continue to provide protection against viruses even as they mutate into new strains," said Heeney.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

When hypergolic propellants burn, they release highly carcinogenic toxins and can cause suffocation and mutate a person’s DNA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Genes can be expressed or activated, or not—more often they’re not; they mutate and can alter their own function and be altered by environmental forces.

From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2026

While viruses are technically not alive, it is their nature to mutate and evolve.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2025

“Cells mutate all the time. It’s not as unusual as they’d have you believe in the movies.”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

“It’s a virus that mutates and against which people must be immunized over and over again.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Then, in its final minute, the song mutates again, this time into reggaeton.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

Most of the time the virus drifts along making minor changes and then every so often there is a sudden abrupt shift as the virus mutates substantially.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025

Bird flu has already cost America billions — and if it mutates to allow for human-to-human transmission, the cost could soar into the hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2025

He descends into dreams in which Fredericks mother mutates into a leering, small-mouthed demon and lowers Dr. Hauptmann’s triangles over his head.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

But despite its effectiveness in eliminating polio, the live virus occasionally mutated back into its pathogenic form, resulting in rare cases of vaccine-related polio—something that Sabin refused to acknowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

But the alternative, as “Backrooms” so sagely implies, is remaining stuck in the past, letting ourselves be mutated and misremembered until we look nothing like us at all.

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

It works by inhibiting the ODC protein, which in turn reduces the excessive enzyme activity caused by the mutated gene.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026

Next he turned to AlphaFold, a scientific AI model that won 2024's chemistry Nobel, to better understand one of the mutated doggy genes.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

Why had the beautiful fairy mutated into a revolting little devil?

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

The good news is the virus has shown no signs of mutating to make it better at infecting people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

This is look No. 1 at the photo shoot for this story, and everyone in the room — producers, photo assistants, editors — stop to stare, little gasps mutating into big ones.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

Successive governments have attempted to ban such groups, yet the problem has persisted with gangs mutating, rebranding and reappearing under new names each electoral cycle.

From BBC ● May 3, 2026

If there's one thing viruses are good at, it's mutating into new forms that can evade our immunity, whether that's from vaccines or past infections.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025

Ernie glared back in the mirror, picking at his face, a big pimple in the middle of his forehead like he was mutating into a unicorn.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds