mutation

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When these neurons were activated, the mice began to behave more like those without the mutation.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

In experiments with mice, they found that the mutation disrupts a brain circuit responsible for updating beliefs when new information is received.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

In 2020, it ordered the culling of all roughly 17 million farm-raised mink in Denmark to stop the spread of a coronavirus mutation, a directive it later admitted had no legal grounds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

A protective mutation identified in South Asia may point to mechanisms driving cardiovascular or metabolic disease worldwide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

For Darwin’s theory to work, heredity had to possess constancy and inconstancy, stability and mutation.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee