Richard Preston

The problem with Ebola is that it makes mistakes while it copies itself. The mistakes are actually good for Ebola because they help Ebola change, and as a result of this, as it jumps from one human body to the next, roughly half the time, it's got a mutation.

American Writer

Dean Ornish

Having the BRCA mutation significantly increases the risk of breast cancer, but it is not always the only factor. Lifestyle choices may increase or decrease the risk of breast cancer, but that knowledge is an opportunity to empower ourselves, not to blame.

American Educator

Guy Laliberte

Adaption of the human body in space is not yet mastered. As soon as you hit space, you feel your body is going through a period of mutation. There's no blood in your head; you have a hard time swallowing. We're not born to naturally be in space.

Canadian Businessman

Mike Patton

I know that whatever I put out, whether people think it's pop or noise or whatever, it's always going to be some kind of a freak or mutation. It's not going to be anything pure that a lot of people will relate to. And that's fine.

American Musician

Mikhail Gorbachev

If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.

Statesman

Genesis P-Orridge

Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel.

English Musician

Douglas Coupland

We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.

Canadian Author

David Grinspoon

Radiation is one of the important factors in evolution. It causes mutation, and some level of mutation is actually good for evolution.

American Scientist

Margaret Chan

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

Chinese Public Servant

Frances McDormand

American Actress

Used to express a process of change or development, sometimes unpredictably.

Change or Evolution

While it can suggest a negative turn, 'mutate' can be neutral or positive depending on context.

Not Always Negative

Implies a gradual process, not an immediate switch from one state to another.

Not Instantaneous

In biology, 'mutate' specifically refers to genetic or hereditary change.

Scientific Context

Mutation in biology is a natural process, not controlled by the organism.

Impersonal Process

Genetic mutations aren't always externally visible; some affect internal processes.

Not Always Visible

 And if a child inherits a copy of the mutation from only one parent, there will be just enough abnormal hemoglobin to make life difficult for the malaria parasite, while most of their red blood cells retain their normal shape and function. In regions rife with this parasite, sickle cell mutation offered a serious evolutionary advantage.

How this disease changes...

 gives quite the edge. As the non-resistant bacteria are killed off, which happens especially quickly in antibiotic-rich environments, like hospitals, there is more room and resources for the resistant ones to thrive, passing along only the mutated genes that help them do so. Reproduction isn't the only way to do this.

What causes antibiotic...

 amounts each generation until eventually after millions of years the hammerheads we know today appeared but the latest genetic evidence has turned this theory upside down some scientists now think the hammer didn't appear gradually that perhaps it was a freak mutation that happened almost overnight

How did the Hammerhead...

 The neural networks that predispose you to normal sleep, give you normal sleep, and those that give you normal mental health, are overlapping. And what's the evidence for that? Well, genes that have been shown to be very important in the generation of normal sleep, when mutated, when changed,

Why do we sleep? PIPE...

 They may cause a gene to make its protein in a different organ, or at a different time of life, or the protein may start doing a different job altogether. In snakes, for example, there's a gene that makes a protein for killing bacteria. Long ago, the gene duplicated and the new copy mutated.

Where do genes come...

 studies show that chronically sleeping fewer than six hours a night increases stroke risk by four and half times compared to those getting a consistent seven to eight hours of shuteye. For a handful of people on the planet who carry a rare inherited genetic mutation,

What would happen if you...

 king penguin astonishing he jokingly said it's a one in a zillion kind of mutation and scientifically calls it very rare he explains that typically melanistic birds will have white spots where melanin pigmentation has failed to color the feathers but it's extremely

Mutant All-Black Penguin...

 the influenza virus mutates so quickly that new strains pop up constantly. The slower mutation rate of coronaviruses means our immune systems, drugs, and vaccines might be able to recognize them for longer after infection, and therefore protect us better.

What is a coronavirus? -...

 this indicates that that site is important for a function, so a disease mutation should fall within that site. So in this case here, if all the mammals that we look at have a yellow-type genome at that site, it probably suggests that purple is bad.

Emma Teeling: The secret...

 at mutated mutates not only through mistakes in code but through epigenetic and cultural influences I've spent seven years I think so far on this project this one has two heads and

Mutate