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Recent Examples of malformation
One rare disease of particular interest for my lab is cerebral cavernous malformation, or CCM.
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Richard J. Price, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
Drake White had a stroke while performing on stage in 2019 and was later diagnosed with an arteriovenous malformation (AVM), according to his biography on his website.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Examples include a Brazilian boy who had his pancreatic malformation disappear in 2013.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
That one, announced last month, has twoXAR working with the Department of Dermatology at Stanford’s School of Medicine to identify drug candidates targeting lymphatic malformation, epidermolysis bullosa simplex (EBS), and other rare disorders.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2016
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Richard J. Price, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
Drake White had a stroke while performing on stage in 2019 and was later diagnosed with an arteriovenous malformation (AVM), according to his biography on his website.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Examples include a Brazilian boy who had his pancreatic malformation disappear in 2013.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
That one, announced last month, has twoXAR working with the Department of Dermatology at Stanford’s School of Medicine to identify drug candidates targeting lymphatic malformation, epidermolysis bullosa simplex (EBS), and other rare disorders.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for malformation
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Court documents reveal extensive injuries including ligature marks, burn marks, broken bones and deformity sustained before Crystal Marie Falcon’s death on February 13.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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Ancient mosaics have been restored into laughable deformities of their previous selves.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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Many earlier drives failed because target organisms developed mutations, thus preventing CRISPR cutting.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Feb. 2026
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That path is built for one child and one mutation, by one desperate family at a time.—
Judy Stecker,
STAT,
27 Feb. 2026
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The disfigurement struck at an inopportune time.—
Harold Holzer,
New York Daily News,
8 Feb. 2026
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In the story, based on the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux, the brooding musical prodigy Phantom, who wears a mask to cover a facial disfigurement, haunts the Paris Opera House and becomes obsessed with young soprano Christine Daaé.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
7 Dec. 2025
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These tests screen for abnormalities, and if the results are concerning, your next step is a colonoscopy.—
Sohaib Imtiaz,
Verywell Health,
27 Feb. 2026
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Researchers must also confirm that the therapy successfully targeted the patient’s genetic or biological abnormality.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
23 Feb. 2026
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In this trial, participants received a treatment that carried new genetic instructions into the brain to reduce production of and silence the mutant huntingtin protein.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Knaff had been fighting cancer since November 2022, when he was diagnosed with a grade 4 H3G34 mutant diffuse hemispheric glioma, or more simply put, glioblastoma.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026
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The program has made other discoveries related to such exceptionally healthy older brains, from personality traits to neurological anomalies.—
Lindsey Leake,
NBC news,
26 Feb. 2026
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Was that just an anomaly or a sign of future positive movement?—
Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Malformation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malformation. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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