mutation

That earlier discovery suggested an intriguing possibility: What if scientists could develop a treatment that recreates the protection provided by this rare mutation?

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

The drug didn’t prove as effective in a wider population of breast-cancer patients whose tumors weren’t explicitly driven by the ESR1 mutation, a failure that led to a 53% stock selloff for Arvinas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

In her mid-20s, Courtney-Grace was diagnosed with a genetic mutation, which can be inherited and is associated with an increased risk of tumours.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Pity Strong couldn’t play the CEO after his bro-y 2024 mutation into MMA-fighting Marky Mark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Another woman with the same mutation might develop an indolent variant; and yet another might not develop breast cancer at all.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Melanoma tumors carry lots of mutations, giving the vaccine plenty of targets to train the immune system to recognize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

As part of the testing, it was revealed that she had gene mutations that increased her risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Groups that are less likely to be lactose intolerant include northern Europeans—populations believed to have developed genetic mutations from a history of dairy herding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

They found that some mutations affecting leucine metabolism could help cancer cells survive.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

Plants treated with various phenols suffered profound destruction of chromosomes, changes in genes, a striking number of mutations, “irreversible hereditary changes.”

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson