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Mutation
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MUTATION, French law. This term is synonymous with change, and is particularly applied to designate the change which takes place in the property of a thing in its transmission from one person to another; permutation therefore happens when, the owner of the thing sells, exchanges or gives it. It is nearly synonymous with transfer. (q.v.) Merl. Repert. h.t.



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Writing in the October 15 edition of the journal AIDS, a team of Belgian scientists said that as the AIDS virus mutates to thwart the body's immune system, it is slowly losing its ability to kill.
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Chinese researchers also sequenced the SARS virus and found that some samples differ considerably from those decoded in North America, which suggests that the virus mutates rapidly.
 
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