mutant
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“Heartstopper” star Kit Connor is reportedly Marvel Studios’ pick to play Scott Summers, the mutant hero also known as Cyclops, in its upcoming “X-Men” reboot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
To test this idea, he introduced the yeast version of the protein, called Pex11, into the mutant plant cells.
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
“I suppose that was a faulty comparison. It’s not for flies. It’s for mutant moles.”
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
"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
The mutants generated by Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus were even more dramatic than the ones described by Lewis.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
