In lab studies, stem cells also can quickly accumulate mutations like those in cancer cells.
The paper's authors said poor countries needed greater access to sophisticated genetic sequencing machines that could spot tiny DNA mutations like the ones making this germ so lethal.
But mutations are, too just not single, large-effect mutations like those that cause haemophilia and sickle-cell anaemia.
Mr. Stone makes his living breeding snakes with genetic mutations, like albinism, that make them attractive to buyers.
They are, a pilot says admiringly, "mutations," like the organisms that crawled out of the primordial soup.
It has accumulated and hung on to some mutations, like "cherries on a one-armed bandit", he says.
But rare mutations, like those found in just a single village, can be much more informative about a person's origin, and these may be programmed into the more powerful gene chips now under construction.
While contemplating themes for a new party, he opted for the music he cherished as a Brooklyn teenager: besides hip-hop and R&B, popular mutations like new jack swing, hip-house and dance hall reggae.
While these social protests — and their flash-mob, criminal mutations like those in London — are not caused by new technologies per se, they are fueled by them.
Other mutations, like G551D, only cause a gating defect.
Mutations like R391H may affect the interactions and cell cycle control.
