variant

This exchange created a new strain or variant that then spread between clubbers and caused severe illness.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The U.S. government is expected to keep Falcon busy, with flights on the rocket and its larger variant potentially extending into the early 2030s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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

Another woman with the same mutation might develop an indolent variant; and yet another might not develop breast cancer at all.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

During the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers could follow individual variants in remarkable detail because genome sequences were usually linked to precise dates.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Google DeepMind on Tuesday introduced the AlphaGenome Atlas, a dataset of predictions for the effects of every possible single-letter change across the human genome—roughly 9 billion variants in total.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The researchers found that genetic variants associated with personality overlap with genetic patterns connected to many other areas of life.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

Genetic variants associated with conscientiousness were also related to being more active during the daytime.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

Over the next years, as the vigorous Oenothera multiplied, de Vries found that eight hundred new variants had spontaneously arisen—plants with gigantic leaves, with hairy stems, or with odd-shaped flowers.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee