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"We've converted vaccine development from being reactive to being future proof. Our vaccines will continue to provide protection against viruses even as they mutate into new strains," said Heeney.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2025

The aids virus and other emerging viruses are surviving the wreck of the tropical biosphere because they can mutate faster than any changes taking place in their ecosystems.

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

Then, in its final minute, the song mutates again, this time into reggaeton.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

If that protein in the coronavirus changes or mutates then the body's protection is lessened.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025

HIV is genetically diverse making the virus difficult to target with a vaccine, but bNAbs may overcome that hurdle because they bind to parts of the virus that remain constant even when it mutates.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024

“You are absolutely right. This hummer has an established life cycle. You get into that what-if? game. What if it got into human lungs? If it mutates, it could be a problem. A big problem.”

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

But the alternative, as “Backrooms” so sagely implies, is remaining stuck in the past, letting ourselves be mutated and misremembered until we look nothing like us at all.

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

Researchers were especially encouraged to find that certain chemotherapy drugs appeared to work better in cat mammary tumors carrying the mutated FBXW7 gene.

From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026

And so, I’m on a chemotherapy that’s being delivered to the 97% of my tumors that are benign, and those don’t get hit nearly as hard as the 3% that are mutated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

A highly mutated COVID-19 strain is circulating in California — raising concerns that disease activity could rise heading into the summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

His nose and mouth had mutated into a snout filled with yellow fangs.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

But some viruses are adept at changing their appearance – or mutating – so vaccines can quickly go out of date.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

This is look No. 1 at the photo shoot for this story, and everyone in the room — producers, photo assistants, editors — stop to stare, little gasps mutating into big ones.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

Mourning is ever-developing and growing and changing and mutating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

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