variant

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"How could this have gone for four to six weeks, ... spreading while not getting the testing results that we needed to show that it was a particular variant?"

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Researchers do not yet understand exactly how this fibronectin variant relates to senescence, but the finding could help scientists better define what makes senescent cells unique.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

While epidemiological assessments and testing are still under way, Van Kerkhove said the WHO is operating under the assumption that this hantavirus virus is the Andes variant.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

It has been behind outbreaks in South America and the Western U.S., where the most common variant is the Sin Nombre virus, which means “the virus with no name” in Spanish.

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

Meggers’s “law of environmental limitation of culture,” her critics in essence say, is nothing but a green variant of Holmberg’s Mistake.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann