mutate
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Genes can be expressed or activated, or not—more often they’re not; they mutate and can alter their own function and be altered by environmental forces.
From Slate • Mar. 19, 2026
Most efforts to create broader vaccines have aimed to protect against an entire viral family, such as all coronaviruses or all influenza strains, by targeting viral components that mutate less frequently.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026
This gave H3N2 another chance to mutate, which is natural for viruses, and so it did.
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026
While human H5N1 cases have slowed, the virus’s potential to mutate for human-to-human transmission remains a public health concern.
From Barron's • Oct. 28, 2025
The Ebola Reston vims jumped quickly from room to room, and as it blossomed in the monkeys, it seemed to mutate spontaneously into something that looked quite a lot like influenza.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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Anything But Typical
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