Figuring out which new viruses could mutate into the next pandemic won't be easy.
If not, Asia's cautious naval build-up could indeed mutate into a classic, old-fashioned arms race.
Inadequate treatment allows the TB bacteria to mutate into a stronger form, fueling drug resistance.
Some parts of its vast Baghdad compound will mutate into foreign embassies or consulates.
Narrow investigations can mutate into broad ones that cost tens of millions of dollars.
Or once the fungus got to the States, did it evolve and mutate into a more virulent form?
If it runs rampant, it can mutate into an unwillingness to listen to and accept input from others.
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But as above, is it even possible that this can mutate into a threat to Google on any serious level?
Republicans parlay free market principles into votes, but rapidly mutate into big spenders once they too can dispense from the public purse.
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Occasionally, though, the viruses that cause them mutate into something truly nasty.
There is a chance that Mr Feingold's damp squib will one day mutate into a giant monster that consumes America's entire political system.
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About 60 percent of those infected die, and experts have long feared the H5N1 virus could mutate into a form that spreads easily from person to person, possibly igniting a pandemic.
Because BubbleBoy will no doubt mutate into something nastier.
Last year's flu-shot shortage was scary enough, but now scientists see the specter of a bona fide pandemic if the bird-flu strain known has H5N1 were to mutate into an infection that could spread to people.
The bird flu, so-called H5N1, has top epidemiologists across the world on edge because of its potential to mutate into a new strain that no one would be immune to and that could easily spread among humans.
One explanation for the solar-neutrino deficit (only a third of the predicted number have been detected) is that electron-neutrinos produced by nuclear-fusion reactions in the sun's core mutate into the other two types, which are harder to detect.
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But the few microbes that are able to survive a drug assault mutate rapidly into resistant strains.
Some scientists believe that they can cause cells to mutate and turn into a cancer cell.
In general, the signature-based security products used to defend enterprise networks, such as firewalls, anti-virus products and intrusion detection systems are increasingly blind to modern attack methods, which are increasingly embedded into application data or designed to self-mutate in order to evade detection.
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