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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

Most efforts to create broader vaccines have aimed to protect against an entire viral family, such as all coronaviruses or all influenza strains, by targeting viral components that mutate less frequently.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026

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

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2025

And if it should mutate in some other direction .

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

“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

These antibodies recognize parts of the virus that remain consistent even as it mutates, making them especially valuable for vaccine research.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2026

The COVID-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2, mutates often, learning to better transmit itself from person to person and evade immunity created by vaccinations and previous infections.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2025

If that protein in the coronavirus changes or mutates then the body's protection is lessened.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025

It mutates even in the course of one infection, and a person who dies of hiv is usually infected with multiple strains, which have all arisen spontaneously as mutants in the body.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

Researchers were especially encouraged to find that certain chemotherapy drugs appeared to work better in cat mammary tumors carrying the mutated FBXW7 gene.

From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026

A highly mutated COVID-19 strain is circulating in California — raising concerns that disease activity could rise heading into the summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

“I wouldn’t expect you to. This is mutated from security we developed inside Henka Games.”

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

It emerges from millions of online users, evolving collectively, mutating at breakneck speed and often disappearing as quickly as it appears.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Can some mutating DNA be the catalyst for a happy reunion?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Mourning is ever-developing and growing and changing and mutating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

The Board of Peace is mutating into something like a low-rent version of the U.N.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2026

“We’ve strayed from Lana’s point. There’s something wrong with this virus. It’s not consistent. I’m not a scientist, but could it be mutating or something? Changing as it jumps from one person to the next?”

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner