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How to use the word mutation in a Sentence?

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For his exact mutation, if you think about DNA, you have two copies of everything. He has one good copy and one abnormal copy. Not only is his bad copy improperly functioning, it’s also preventing the healthy copy from functioning properly, a knockdown ASO would target the abnormal copy of the gene, by preventing it from turning into the abnormal protein, without affecting the healthy copy.

Christelle Achkar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need to keep the levels of virus to the lowest possible level, and that is our best defense. If a virus is not very robustly replicating and spreading, it gives it less of a chance of a mutation, which gives it less of a chance of the evolving of another variant.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We don't yet have evidence that there's mutation in the virus itself. We are beginning to collect that information, we will be convening our groups of virologists and other experts who will discuss this very question based on the sequence of the genome of some of the cases that are being detected.

Rosamund Lewis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My suspicion is that's a heavy escape mutation.

Alex Sigal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Suddenly, this guy manages it. So we don't know what that does, my suspicion is that's a heavy escape mutation.

Alex Sigal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When a virus is swilling around the population, it can mutate, every time it replicates( infects) there is the possibility of a mutation. While most of those are neutral or even damage the virus, every so often a mutation gives the virus a' fitness advantage,' which makes it more transmissible. Bluntly, the more people with a second dose, the less this thing can mutate in dangerous ways.

Simon Clarke

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Proteins are very flexible in their abilities to interact with receptors or antibodies; they are capable of [tolerating] mutation in quite a number of different ways to achieve the same endpoint.

John Moore

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We are in a very tough situation... There is no country in Europe with a higher documented proportion of the British mutation.

Prime Minister Igor Matovic

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Sputnik was the first in the world to suggest that the two shots should be different to give a stronger and longer immune response, more mutation-proof, so what others are starting to do with this kind of trial is to follow our steps.

Kirill Dmitriev

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Senior politicians who advise people to maintain social distancing for Covid protection wear masks only in front of media camera, otherwise not. When they hold rally and meetings, all social distancing rules are forgotten. Media continue to spread mutation rumor to hide their earlier lies.

Mukaibar Shah

added by anonymous
3 years ago

The fundamental principle of getting people vaccinated as quickly and as efficiently as you possibly can will always be the best way to prevent the further evolution of any mutant, because when you do that, you prevent replication, and replication is essential for mutation.

Bidens First 100 DaysHere

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Whatever the underlying genetics are between the two of them is what produced this very unique mutation, now we're looking long term to understand and study what that gene is, are both parents recessive trait holders, is this just a fluke ?

Jordan Patch

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The South African strain has been detected in the UK - albeit currently in small numbers - but does seem to be increasing in recent weeks, variants with this mutation could reduce vaccine efficacy, though most likely all current vaccines would still be highly effective.

Paul Hunter

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Having this genetic biomarker, we can now very easily test any individual for the presence of the mutation, having that ability can potentially save lives.

David Tester

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The utility of the PARP inhibitors could be much broader than just patients that have a tumor with the BRCA mutation, that becomes relevant when you start thinking about the drugs' role in other tumor types like prostate cancer and breast cancer where the incidence of new patients each year is much greater than in ovarian cancer.

John Bowler

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Evolution is faster or slower depending on how much of an advantage there is to having a certain mutation, if a mutation pops up for people living on Mars, and it gives them a 50-percent survival advantage, thats ahugeadvantage, right? And that means that those individuals are going to be passing those genes on at a much higher rate than they otherwise would have.

Rice University

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We discovered a mutation in a gene critical for growing flagella, which may be the reason for this.

Matthew Dorman

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The transplant resulted in the complete destruction of the old immune system and the construction of a new immune system in which the (HIV) virus can't replicate (because of the genetic mutation). That is the cure.

Steven Deeks

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I don't know how large of a risk that is, because again, it depends on the odds of the mutation, whether the mutation was one that would end up staying in the population or whether it would be selected out over time.

Govind Persad

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Over the past 20 years we are learning of a number of genes that can have a mutation. Some change our treatment.

Otis Brawley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This money that I'm raising, I'm hoping that the research can be done to actually find a treatment for these mutations, this mutation is the same mutation in the majority of DIPG tumors. That type of tumor has a 0 % survival rate.

Peter Swenson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We have been eating mutations in plants and animals since humans started to improve crops thousands of years ago, that's a random process and took thousands of years. With gene editing, Zachary Lippman're now just making one mutation in one gene in the simplest sense.

Zachary Lippman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

As we refined the sophistication of the approach and the mutation classification, the algorithms and the sequencing, it has become clear that this was a big challenge that would require coordinated investment and organisation, we have to collect five to ten thousand tumour samples and normal blood, we have to quality-control the DNA sequencing and do the data management and statistics -- it's a combination of large-scale epidemiology and large-scale genomics that haven't been married together in this way before.

Mike Stratton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

According to Prof Betz's team at the Institute for Human Genetics, the syndrome is caused by a mutation to one of three genes - PADI3, TGM3 and TCHH. (SWNS.com) Taylor was born with no hair but began sprouting tufts of soft baby fuzz when she was around five months old. Rather than falling out and growing back straight and brown, like her parents' hair, Taylor's bright blond locks grew and grew. At one point we had a chat with my mother-in-law who said, 'There is a photo on the internet that looks like Taylor,'.

Though Cara

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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