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A later study expanded this picture further, reporting more than 8 million undescribed genetic variants across the Brazilian population, including over 36,000 thought to be potentially harmful.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026

About three-quarters of undescribed plants are threatened with extinction.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2024

Curiously, the DNA appears to belong to a previously undescribed bacterium, which is most closely related to “a strange bacteria that’s got a really small genome,” called Mycoplasma, he says.

From National Geographic • Dec. 1, 2023

What they found was a previously undescribed feline coronavirus, which they dubbed FCoV-23, that contains a large chunk of RNA from the dog virus pCCoV.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 13, 2023

This association of diseases is of course not new, or even undescribed before this name was suggested for it.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various