mutate

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While viruses are technically not alive, it is their nature to mutate and evolve.

From Salon

Both the newly approved Itvisma and Zolgensma deliver a working copy of the mutated gene, which makes proteins to protect and maintain motor neurons.

From Barron's

The east African nation saw civil war in the 1990s mutate in the 2000s into an Islamist insurgency that still threatens much of the country.

From Barron's

Epidemiologists and virologists worry that avian influenza could generate a pandemic if allowed to spread and mutate.

From Los Angeles Times

Although most adults have already been exposed to influenza C, the researchers say we might have little immunity against a new strain that jumps back to humans after mutating in animals.

From Scientific American