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To investigate its role, the team created assembloids from patient-derived cells carrying an NRXN1 mutation.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

It successfully targeted a common cancer mutation, resulting in a drug that nearly doubled how long people with pancreatic cancer survived—a remarkable breakthrough for a notoriously deadly disease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Rasonque, a new therapy from Revolution Medicine, is a milestone for treating a mutation that made pancreatic cancer a death sentence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Immunotherapies haven’t proven effective against pancreatic cancer, which is almost always driven by a mutation in the RAS gene family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The mutation in the hemophilia gene, which affects the clotting of blood, had likely arisen spontaneously in Queen Victoria at birth.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

While many cases occur without a known cause, inherited forms caused by genetic mutations will strike generation after generation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Using those mutations, which are also called neoantigens, the researchers make an mRNA strand that is unique to the patient.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

It looks for more than 450 DNA mutations associated with bladder cancer across 23 genes.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Existing approaches include gene therapy, which is suitable for only a small fraction of patients with particular mutations, and electronic retinal prostheses, which can be invasive, costly, and require significant training.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Had they been repeatedly domesticated independently, they would exhibit legacies of those multiple origins in the form of varied chromosomal arrangements or varied mutations.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond