mutation

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In 2020, it ordered the culling of all roughly 17 million farm-raised mink in Denmark to stop the spread of a coronavirus mutation, a directive it later admitted had no legal grounds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

This same mutation is well known in human breast cancer and is already targeted with specific drugs called PI3K inhibitors.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2026

A protective mutation identified in South Asia may point to mechanisms driving cardiovascular or metabolic disease worldwide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

The strain the animals have contains a mutation allowing it to more easily transmit between mammals.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Koyré had a vast influence in America, and his Bachelardian conception of an intellectual mutation was adopted by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton