mutation
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Yet the education built around that slogan has failed to prepare societies to recognize new mutations.
They then programmed the virus with new capabilities by introducing point mutations as well as DNA insertions and deletions.
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According to the researchers, mutations in GluDs have been linked to psychiatric disorders, including anxiety and schizophrenia.
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The space-station phages gradually accumulated specific mutations that could boost phage infectivity or their ability to bind receptors on bacterial cells.
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Most histories of men’s style trace the Edwardian suit’s post-1945 mutations into the Teddy Boy look of the 1950s and the Italian- and preppy-influenced Modernist revival of the 1960s.
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