mutant
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The movie’s biggest reveal involves the identity of the villain played by Sadie Sink — and plenty of questions remain about her future and what her appearance means for a certain fan-favorite mutant superhero team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
These mutant cells also lacked vesicles, small membrane-bound compartments that typically form inside the peroxisome during fatty acid processing.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
To test this idea, he introduced the yeast version of the protein, called Pex11, into the mutant plant cells.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 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
“That’s because you were, like, a mutant half-cheetah.”
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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
About another five mutants increased TLR7 sensitivity but to a lesser degree.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
De Vries quickly realized the importance of his observation: these mutants had to be the missing pieces in Darwin’s puzzle.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
