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Because it protrudes at a slight angle, swells approaching from the south or southwest bounce off the jetty and mutate into triangular peaks—hence the spot’s name.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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

The songs constantly mutate, often stretching out over five minutes, in an implicit rejection of TikTok virality.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025

The problem is that in response to antibiotics, bacteria can mutate or change.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

“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

The fact that the virus mutates rapidly means that vaccines for it will be very difficult to develop.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

A patient’s tumor is surgically removed and then sequenced, allowing researchers to figure out which mutated proteins are expressed on the cancer cells.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Flu hit early last winter, with a new mutated version of the virus circulating - a seasonal influenza called subclade K or Super-K.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

The researchers began by studying the vaccine in melanoma because those tumors are typically highly mutated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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

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

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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