Sentence examples for mutations that enabled from inspiring English sources

Most of the mutations that enabled bacteria to survive in the presence of an antibiotic made them less fit than ordinary bacteria when they were returned to the comfortable environment.

The oligonucleotides also harbored secondary silent mutations that enabled us to distinguish between nonsense mutations arising from HDR rather than fortuitously due to NHEJ (Fig.  4b).

For decades, accordingly, biologists have looked for gene mutations that enable some aspect of cancer cells' aberrant growth, metabolism, regeneration, or behavior.

Cancer cells bear mutations that enable rapid growth, but what if only some cells within a tumor possess indefinite growth?

As the fast-growing cells become cancerous, mutations that enable them to grow faster take over the population inside of tumors.

In any case, Dr. Sasisekharan cautioned, the mutations that enable a virus to jump species would vary for each type and strain of flu virus.

Researchers have so far found "five to nine" mutations that enable transmission in mammals, he noted.

Antibiotic resistance has been a mixed blessing for bacteria, as the mutations that enable a bug to survive a drug also often disable some key cellular function or slow its growth.

Identification of the mutations that enable the evolved phenotype and understanding the molecular basis of their contribution to strain fitness and performance can reveal novel strategies for increasing tolerance.

It becomes evident that viral mutations that enable human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to evade the cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response are already accumulating in populations where the selecting human leukocyte antigen (HLA) molecules are highly prevalent, indicating the dynamic and shifting nature of the battle currently being played out between HIV and human populations.

However, the epithelial cell transformation that occurs in common to these tumor types involves multiple processes, including mutations that enable conditions favorable for cancer cell survival, proliferation and migration.