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mutate

verb as in convert

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When mutated, RAS becomes permanently active, continually sending signals that push cells to keep growing and multiplying.

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Rilkean memories can emerge as attitudes, moods or behaviors into which memories have mutated.

Bird flu has already cost America billions — and if it mutates to allow for human-to-human transmission, the cost could soar into the hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars.

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In that paper, they found that while Cas9 usually cuts in the same DNA location every time, some mutated versions of the protein show a relaxation of those constraints.

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Viruses can mutate to escape from antibodies, but the mRNA vaccines are not causing the emergence of more virulent strains, likely for at least two reasons.

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