The phrase "altered it into" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a transformation or change of something into a different form or state.
Example: "The artist altered the original painting into a modern interpretation that captivated the audience."
Alternatives: "transformed it into" or "changed it into".
Homer then places photos of Maggie around the plaque to alter it into saying "Do it for her", referring to Maggie.
On Tuesday, the Senator co-opted the slogan that has come to personify Obama's candidacy, taking the Illinois Democrat's "Change You Can Believe In" and altering it into "A Leader You Can Believe In". Now there is this.
Don't get me wrong, I like the work, but it's just unavoidable for me not to question the aesthetics: taking something as essential as the human body and altering it into sculptural shape.
This will be done by returning to the negative experience in the patient's imagination and altering it into satisfying new feelings, helpful attitudes and corrective experiences (e.g. support or presence of partner/parent) [ 24- 26].
The virus templates then enter the human cell and alter it into a virus cell.
However, the intrusion of the granite into the Killas strata altered it metamorphically into a shale-type rock.
This isn't the first time the Codex has been altered; it was divided into 12 leather-bound volumes during a restoration in the 1960s and '70s.
Monsanto scientists took the cow gene that creates growth hormones, altered it, and inserted it into E. coli bacteria to create a living drug factory.
Microbial magic: Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute, in Rockville, MD, transplanted the genome of the bacterium Mycoplasma mycoides (shown here) into yeast, altered it, and then transplanted it back into a related bacterial species.
First, he began offering nose jobs, having realized that, when patients' brows were altered, it threw their noses into new, and sometimes unflattering, relief.
