mutate
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"We've converted vaccine development from being reactive to being future proof. Our vaccines will continue to provide protection against viruses even as they mutate into new strains," said Heeney.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
When hypergolic propellants burn, they release highly carcinogenic toxins and can cause suffocation and mutate a person’s DNA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Genes can be expressed or activated, or not—more often they’re not; they mutate and can alter their own function and be altered by environmental forces.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2026
The songs constantly mutate, often stretching out over five minutes, in an implicit rejection of TikTok virality.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
The Ebola Reston vims jumped quickly from room to room, and as it blossomed in the monkeys, it seemed to mutate spontaneously into something that looked quite a lot like influenza.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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“It’s a virus that mutates and against which people must be immunized over and over again.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Bird flu has already cost America billions — and if it mutates to allow for human-to-human transmission, the cost could soar into the hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2025
If that protein in the coronavirus changes or mutates then the body's protection is lessened.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025
Rasmussen said the worry now is that if H5N1 mutates to become transmissible between people, it’ll be young children as well as the old and compromised who are likely to be most affected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
“You are absolutely right. This hummer has an established life cycle. You get into that what-if? game. What if it got into human lungs? If it mutates, it could be a problem. A big problem.”
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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Researchers found that certain chemotherapy drugs were more effective against cat mammary tumors carrying the mutated FBXW7 gene.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
One promising experimental anti-tau treatment that made waves this summer acts on the very same gene that is mutated in Barb’s family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Even the endings feel like save points, with Alice respawning at the start of each consecutive movie with another mutated monkey on her back.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
A patient’s tumor is surgically removed and then sequenced, allowing researchers to figure out which mutated proteins are expressed on the cancer cells.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
His nose and mouth had mutated into a snout filled with yellow fangs.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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"It keeps mutating in response to its environment," he says.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Can some mutating DNA be the catalyst for a happy reunion?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
Successive governments have attempted to ban such groups, yet the problem has persisted with gangs mutating, rebranding and reappearing under new names each electoral cycle.
From BBC ● May 3, 2026
Mourning is ever-developing and growing and changing and mutating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
“We’ve strayed from Lana’s point. There’s something wrong with this virus. It’s not consistent. I’m not a scientist, but could it be mutating or something? Changing as it jumps from one person to the next?”
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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