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mutation

[myoo-tey-shuhn] / mjuˈteɪ ʃən /


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Carrying a single copy of the mutation confers protection against severe malaria.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 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

Now, doctors have a medicine that targets the mutation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Even the language of his thoughts—variation, mutation, survival, and selection—bore striking similarities to Darwin's.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

The authors reported negative results in most assays, including tests for mutations and chromosome damage.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Together, the RAS mutations drive as much as a third of all human cancers, including most pancreatic tumors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Their children inherited these mutations and thus generated new species, thereby driving evolution.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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