mutated
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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
According to the researchers, these mutated cells may create a more inflammatory and damaging environment than healthy microglia.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 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
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
Second by second, their fins altered, their bodies grew longer or shorter, and they mutated from species to species.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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