mutated

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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

It works by inhibiting the ODC protein, which in turn reduces the excessive enzyme activity caused by the mutated gene.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026

RevMed’s pill, daraxonrasib, targets a protein called RAS that, when mutated, fuels the majority of pancreatic tumors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

That is because in 2024 it was revealed that the so-called "next Berlin patient" entered long-term remission despite receiving a transplant that did not have two copies of the mutated gene.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

Poxies crept toward us, mutated to the point they barely resembled anything human.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda