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Beachy has turned normal prostate cells cancerous with a single mutation in Sonic hedgehog.
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The bad news: A Harvard University team discovered that the virus was able to outsmart another AIDS vaccine with a single mutation.
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To fix these problems, Ketek grapples onto a second spot inside the bacteria, so bacteria can no longer escape the drug with a single mutation.
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To fix these problems, Ketek grapples onto a second spot inside the bacteria, so the bugs can no longer escape the drug with a single mutation.
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"This is the first time anyone has shown that a single parkin mutation can lower the age of onset, " said Dr James Gusella, study leader and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Human Genetic Research.
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In the 1950s Anthony Allison, a British biochemist, observed that Africans who carry a single copy of the genetic mutation that causes sickle-cell anaemia are protected against malaria.
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Thanks to the work of the appropriately named (and blue-eyed) Danish geneticist Hans Eiberg and his colleagues, we now know that the chief mutation that causes blue eyes is a single letter change, from A to G, at the 26, 039, 213rd position on chromosome 15, within a gene called HERC2.
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With a single biopsy, "you might miss the connection between the mutation and whatever outcome you are looking at, " said Dr. Futreal.
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