mutation
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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.
Together, the team determined that mutations in a gene called TMEM167A are responsible for this rare type of neonatal diabetes.
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