mutant
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The Welsh actor said he spent about half of his time on the set with the special effects make-up team, transforming into the mutant villain.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
But Reilly, who calls himself a coward and claims to be no hero, regards his mutant abilities as “a part of me I wish never existed. With no power, there’s no responsibility.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
Peter Nowell, a pathologist, argued in 1976 that cancers arise from a single mutant cell and then evolve, as offspring acquire new mutations and compete for dominance—a prediction that single-cell sequencing has dramatically confirmed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
"Working with mouse models and cells derived from patients with Rett syndrome, our study provides proof of concept that increasing the levels of mutant MeCP2 in patients with the condition could provide therapeutic benefit."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2026
Across from the soda shop is a petting zoo with three goats, two sheep, four rabbits, two chickens, and Spaghetti, an extremely old mutant llama with a giant tumor growing out of his head.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
The surface is now home to scavengers, soldiers, mutants, and ghouls, all doing their best to survive on spoiled food, brackish water, and whatever’s left in long-abandoned vending machines.
From Salon ● May 12, 2025
"It was a proper disaster, but it didn't cause strange glowing plants or mutants or dangerous cults to emerge."
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2025
He endorsed normal Senate candidates over lab-born mutants in swing-state primaries, and stopped feuding with old enemies in the name of party unity.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024
That same misguided belief that humanity and mutants are in competition with one another brought Earth to the brink of catastrophe in the first season of “X-Men ’97.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
It had taken nearly three decades for Morgan and his students to collect about fifty fly mutants in New York.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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