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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

Most efforts to create broader vaccines have aimed to protect against an entire viral family, such as all coronaviruses or all influenza strains, by targeting viral components that mutate less frequently.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026

While viruses are technically not alive, it is their nature to mutate and evolve.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2025

And if it should mutate in some other direction .

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

“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

Most of the time the virus drifts along making minor changes and then every so often there is a sudden abrupt shift as the virus mutates substantially.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 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

This lucky fact could change, however, as the virus mutates within each cow it infects.

From Salon ● May 23, 2024

He descends into dreams in which Fredericks mother mutates into a leering, small-mouthed demon and lowers Dr. Hauptmann’s triangles over his head.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Flu hit early last winter, with a new mutated version of the virus circulating - a seasonal influenza called subclade K or Super-K.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

In the early 1980s, scientists identified a small number of mutated genes that drove most human cancers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

According to the researchers, these mutated cells may create a more inflammatory and damaging environment than healthy microglia.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026

"Well, I don't want to stick around in here if it is some weird mutated plague. Call for a bio team. Let's have him brought to the medical ward cells."

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

It emerges from millions of online users, evolving collectively, mutating at breakneck speed and often disappearing as quickly as it appears.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

It appears Spider-Man’s DNA could be mutating, as he has gained the ability to produce organic webs, which could be alarming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

Stillness that is not still—think Martha Graham by way of Irving Penn, with a nod to Rei Kawakubo’s mutating forms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

This is particularly true when Elisabeth starts mutating in response to her/Sue’s “misuse” of the titular substance.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2025

“Well, if it is mutating and if any of us have caught it, let’s hope it gives us a week or two before we lose our wits. Come on. Let’s get moving.”

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner