variant

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It is also unknown how widespread this particular variant is.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Amid a worrying Covid variant outbreak among minks -- when Denmark was the largest exporter of their furs -- she ordered the culling of some 17 million minks, an order which was later ruled illegal.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

When directly compared with SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines delivered through lipid nanoparticles, a DoriVac vaccine carrying the same spike protein variant produced a similarly strong immune activation in human models.

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

Rivian will first launch a $57,990 model, with plans to debut a $45,000 variant in late 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

In 1951, working with Harvey Itano at Caltech, Linus Pauling demonstrated that the variant of hemoglobin found in sickle cells was different from the hemoglobin in normal cells.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee