The widely publicised fear is that this strain of avian flu might somehow mutate into one that could spread from human to human. |
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Almost instantly the larvae mutate into full grown imagos and you have yourself an Entopod battalion. |
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Bacteria and some viruses multiply and mutate rapidly, and can evolve much more quickly than we can develop new drugs to fight them. |
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Scientists came to understand how genes mutate, and how mutations helped make natural selection possible. |
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When a pig contracts bird flu, the flu virus can mutate to attach to the human-like pig receptors. |
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The bonds of familial affection threaten to mutate into the bonds of slavery at a moment's notice. |
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In others, repeated square shapes mutate into stretched diamonds, triangles and irregular ovals. |
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Let's hope that this virus does not mutate and create a worldwide pandemic this winter. |
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They appear almost out of nowhere, cover the city, and mutate as they spread. |
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The tortuousness of the judiciary, however frustrating it is, does not mutate him from suspect to terrorist. |
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This is still my personal web site and is not going to mutate into a vertical blog about tech, design, politics, pop culture, or even asbestos. |
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Providing that strain does not mutate into something virulent, it poses no threat to birds. |
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Just like their biological counterparts, digital viruses can mutate or be altered. |
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The big worry is that H5N1 will mutate into a form that is readily transmitted from human to human. |
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Refactor: this feature is extended to allow a script to mutate to another type. |
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They can migrate, mutate, and cross-pollinate with other plants. |
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Events melt into one another and sometimes mutate into an abstract sensation: a sense of sinking or flying, a sense of anticipation or dread. |
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Feminism is always a process, not a finished product: a system of ideas about gender equality that mutate and regenerate. |
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My greatest fear is that the virus will mutate next year, to enable it to infect older people. |
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If Ebola were to become endemic, said Turner, the virus would have to mutate a little. |
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Conventionally you can create a new dictionary on each rendering request and then simply mutate the values during the request handling. |
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A dozen or so virus strains that could mutate at any moment and pose a threat to Europe have been circulating there for years. |
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Over time and continued sun exposure, protein P53 can mutate and become ineffective. |
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We don't know when the virus might mutate into a slightly different strain. |
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However, there is concern that the new H1N1 virus could eventually mutate into a more virulent strain and cause a severe pandemic. |
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These organisms can reproduce, cross-pollinate, mutate, and migrate. |
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Roughly one-half of the microsatellites they isolated in one species were monomorphic in the other and have presumably lost their ability to mutate. |
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Viruses are free to mutate into an infinite variety of functionally equivalent forms, whereas the process of establishing their equivalence is undecidable. |
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Like multiple Babels, huge superstructures would last through eternity, teeming with impermanent subsystems that would mutate over time, beyond their control. |
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Whether you turn to Northern Ireland, Poland, the Basque Country or Corsica, to name just a few, long-standing ressentiments foster communitarianism and tribalism that sometimes mutate into separatism. |
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Our very vocabulary and professional practices must mutate and evolve. |
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Added to this, there is growing concern about the potential human health implications if a strain of avian influenza would mutate into a virus that is transmissible between humans. |
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With a complete predictive theory, Dr. Kassen's research will help others analyze emerging diseases to determine how they will mutate and what steps must be taken in order to contain them. |
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Indonesia is one of the nations worst affected by bird flu, and experts have warned that the avian virus could mutate sometime in the future and spark a pandemic. |
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Recent research has shown that viruses of low pathogenity can mutate into highly pathogenic viruses, sometimes after circulating for only a short period in a poultry population. |
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As miraculous-but-still-imperfect antibiotics flood the world of deadly bacteria, those bacteria invariably mutate to beat the threat. |
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But these regions aren't usually important to the pathogen's survival, so they often mutate, he says. |
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The tomato's ability to mutate and create new and different varieties helped contribute to its success and spread throughout Italy. |
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These compounds are also endocrine disruptors and can mutate the human genes. |
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Using a chemical stimulant, his team coaxed the prophages to mutate into a new form that destroyed the bacteria. |
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The disease starts with healthy cells that mutate and become cancerous. |
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Take the Hong Kong flu last century, the Spanish flu last century, viruses that mutate, the fowl pest in the Netherlands at the moment, about which the World Health Organisation has expressed its concern. |
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There is a concern that H5N1 could mutate or mix with an existing human influenza virus to create a new strain that would be easily transmissible among humans and to which humans would have no immunity. |
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These particular things are viruses that replicate and mutate. |
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Its success stems from its nimbleness and ability to mutate. |
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Antibiotic use can also lead non-disease causing bacteria to mutate into more pernicious strains and become disease causing. |
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Linear energy conversion chains will mutate into conversion networks. |
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Viruses mutate to increase their chances of survival. |
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Instead of trapping and slowly eliminating the virus, some believe that disabling the CCR5 receptor simply provoked it to mutate and invade cells via alternative receptors. |
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The home side will need to start well with Wales by some way the strongest finishers in the tournament in recent years, but the Lions pain of O'Driscoll and Heaslip should mutate into gain. |
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But here too we must see that the monomanias that take us in result from the powerlessness to resist being taken in, in a powerlessness not to continue to augment and mutate. |
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First there would have to be a bird epidemic, then it would have to transmit to humans and then it would have to mutate to transmit human to human. |
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Group selection, if it occurs, acts on groups of organisms, on the assumption that groups replicate and mutate in an analogous way to genes and individuals. |
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The drug combination was shown to work by lethal mutagenesis that could obliterate HIV by causing the virus to mutate to a point where it was no longer infectious. |
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