Sentence examples for mutation that helps from inspiring English sources

AZD9291 targets a genetic mutation that helps tumours evade current lung cancer pills.

scientists were "not sure" of the level of threat posed by a separate mutation that helps the virus reach the lungs.

The H7N9 flu has been fatal in a quarter of known cases — the 1918 Spanish flu killed only 2 percent of its victims — and already has one dangerous mutation that helps it replicate at human body temperatures.

Mixed with so many different combinations, a mutation that helps the organism will understandably be favored by natural selection and, on average, spread.

Similarly, during the evolution of a virus, a mutation that helps the virus evade the human immune system might only be tolerated if the virus has acquired another mutation beforehand.

Through a series of experiments in ferrets, he isolated a strain with four mutations that helped the virus latch on to and infect cells in the throat.

Breast Cancer Gene Test Can Give a False Result The widely used genetic test for breast cancer risk can miss mutations that help cause the disease, a new study says.

The stabilized cancer cells now start to spread but must develop a further set of mutations that help them adapt to the specialized environment of the tumor's target tissues.

Now, scientists have identified three genetic mutations that help indigenous Siberians tolerate their frigid climate.

So Barnes hypothesized that the mutations that help individuals fend off parasitic worms might be the same mutations that make them susceptible to asthma and allergies.

Natural selection favoured mutations that helped them fend off these attacks, and those mutations accumulated to produce the sophisticated defences we have today.