mutation

A Mutation Is Making It Easier for Drug-Resistant Malaria to Spread

Mutation hotspots help 'friendly' viruses outmaneuver the bacteria in your gut

Functional programming languages should be better at mutation than they are

Functional languages should be so much better at mutation than they are

A seemingly subtle swap of metals—substituting a zinc ion with a cobalt ion—and a mutation ramps up the overall electric field strength at the active site of an enzyme, scientists find. The result is a predictably modified enzyme that works an astonishing 50 times faster than its unmodified analog.