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The current variant, H3N2 subclade K, appears similar to last year’s strain and is included in this year’s vaccine, reducing concern about a major mismatch between the vaccine and the flu strain, Chin-Hong said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

“However, Public Health is awaiting subsequent variant testing, which can take several weeks.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

"The fact this outbreak variant was able to spread to so many young people was due to the social environment, a place where lots of close social mixing takes place."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Manipulating gene expression allowed the researchers to test cause and effect rather than simply observe that a genetic variant happened to occur in AnWj negative people.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

This is the preferred spelling, though dictionaries now accept sherbert as a variant.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Like hands, all amino acids exist as two mirrored variants, but only one of them is found in the proteins in the body's cells.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The number of model variants will also be streamlined to boost profitability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

This technique examines the portions of DNA that contain instructions for making proteins, allowing scientists to search across thousands of genes for unusual variants shared by affected individuals.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

“Just as an atlas is a collection of maps, linking together features of the land like altitude and location, AlphaGenome Atlas charts the molecular effects of DNA variants across the genome.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Darwin was unsure how these variants were generated, another fact to which we will return in subsequent pages.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee