mutation

Those mutation targets are encoded into mRNA and manufactured into a vaccine—a process that takes about six weeks from the date of the biopsy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

This allowed them to calculate a precise mutation rate for koalas, which was about half the rate found in humans.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

The team bases its conclusion on the fact that Laron syndrome is caused by a mutation in the growth hormone receptor in the liver.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

The mutation rate describes how many of these changes arise in each generation.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

A man can trust his luck, but a society can’t; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Melanoma has what is called a high tumor mutational burden, or TMB, which means it has many mutations inside the DNA, making it a strong target for this type of treatment.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

The results mark the first successful late-stage trial for a personalized mRNA cancer therapy, validating decades of research into custom treatments engineered specifically for an individual’s tumor mutations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

The idea is to use mRNA to train the immune system to recognize tumor mutations and hunt down and kill cancer cells hiding around the body.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

They used shared mutations as biological markers of ancestry, somewhat like a consumer ancestry testing service.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

Of these, nine had distinct patterns of small mutations that the researchers could 'not find in any databases or in the literature.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann