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

To get a more accurate genetic indicator of cancer risk, my mother encouraged me to get my DNA tested for the BRCA1 gene mutation.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Evolution produced a mutation that disabled a normal yeast transport protein.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

But, no matter how well trained, medical eyes couldn’t spot a reces-sive mutation hiding out on a fifth chromosome.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides