Sentence examples for mutations that allowed from inspiring English sources

That presumably includes details on how the engineered virus was made and details on the precise mutations that allowed it to go airborne.

Although these animals had never before encountered this synthetic compound, they adapted to it rapidly by means of mutations that allowed them to survive in its presence.

In the past two years, the very mutations that allowed these changes have been located within the wheat plant's genome.Wheat's servants now became its slaves.

Any mutations that allowed a virus to use a different surface molecule to get in would make it much more successful than its fellow viruses.

As they applied it to more and more acreage, they raised the evolutionary reward for mutations that allowed weeds to resist glyphosate.

Recently, the teams in Rotterdam and Madison announced that they had produced a form of H5N1 with mutations that allowed it to "go airborne," meaning that it spread through the air from one ferret to another.

Carcinogenic agents induce cancer by causing genetic mutations that allow cells to escape normal biological controls.

Scientists are concerned that in the future either of these strains could gain mutations that allow them to not only jump from birds into humans, but also spread rapidly between people, triggering a deadly pandemic.

Toxic chemicals in cigarette smoke and smokeless tobacco are thought to cause a gradual accumulation of gene mutations that allow cancer cells to form and spread rapidly; users have two to three times the risk of developing pancreatic cancer.

For example, mutations that allow cells to sample a wider variety of morphological space may permit delamination and metastasis.

Over time, however, some develop mutations that allow them to thwart the immune system, and a long stalemate ensues.