mutant
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But Reilly, who calls himself a coward and claims to be no hero, regards his mutant abilities as “a part of me I wish never existed. With no power, there’s no responsibility.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 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
All such mutants promptly sprouted and yielded harvested mutant seeds.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
"In our PEX11 mutants, these vesicles either don't form or are abnormally small and rare, and so we see these massive peroxisomes, way larger than normal."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
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
De Vries quickly realized the importance of his observation: these mutants had to be the missing pieces in Darwin’s puzzle.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
