mutated

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RevMed’s pill, daraxonrasib, targets a protein called RAS that, when mutated, fuels the majority of pancreatic tumors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 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

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

When the gene p53, a well known tumor suppressor, is mutated, that rate nearly doubles.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

Poxies crept toward us, mutated to the point they barely resembled anything human.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda