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- v undergo mutation
cells mutate
- The problem is that cold and flu viruses mutate so rapidly that sometimes they're unrecognizable to the antibodies created by the body in response to any particular vaccine.
- While H5N1 is difficult for humans to catch, experts fear it could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, sparking a deadly flu pandemic.
- These regions mutate less rapidly, and in fact, in the recent study in mice, published in the current issue of Nature Structural Molecular Biology, they did not mutate at all.