Mutates

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Mutates

Undergoes a spontaneous change in the make-up of genes or chromosomes.

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They identified which amino acids are most likely to mutate.

New super vaccine may be 'Achilles heel' in eradicating killer flu

Q: How would scientists fight the virus if it were to mutate and become easily contagious among humans?

Bird flu: the facts you need to know

If and when the H5N1 virus mutates into a strain that retains its lethal effects and becomes highly transmissible from human to human, the clock will start ticking, and the race against time to control the pandemic will begin.

Flu vaccine production gets a shot in the arm

However, he continued, a global pandemic "could become a reality if this virus mutates further, remains highly virulent, and acquires the capability to spread as efficiently from person to person as do the commonly circulating virus strains that produce seasonal influenza epidemics.

Bird flu: the Bush administration has been creating irrational fear about the dangers of avian influenza just so that they can "save" us from it through restrictive governmental powers

Experts are no longer talking of wiping out the disease, but of containing it before it mutates.

Girl, 17, is killed by bird virus

Once GFAP mutates, an abnormal protein is created, which, in turn, allows for a significant build-up of fibers around the myelin sheath, the insulation that protects the nerve fibers in the brain.

Gene mutation found as cause of rare brain disease--may also hold clues for other nervous-system disorders. (Medical Research Update)

It mutates a lot, but it can't mutate to where it stops functioning.

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And he believes people will besiege GP surgeries looking for vaccines if the HN51 strain of bird flu mutates into a virus which can spread between humans.