Mutations Quotes

You don't have to animate 5,000 different permutations. You author one behavior and then [the character model] stumbles back, he'll try to grab, if there's nothing there he'll fall over. With this kind of A.I. and these kind of behaviors it creates these situations where no two players' experiences are ever the same. - Peter Hirschmann

When you talk to people who play, the fantasy-baseball player tends to be more ardent than the fantasy-football player. Baseball is a game that is played every day, and baseball as a game in fantasy has so many more permutations than does fantasy football. - Don Levy

We've known for some time that smokers are under oxidative stress, because the smoke itself is an oxidant that creates free radicals and cell mutations. The immune response of the body also tends to cause inflammation, and this inflammation is one reason that smoking relates not only to lung cancer but other serious health problems such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. - Maret Traber

We know the virus is changing. We're watching little mutations occur all the time -- that's what flu viruses do. - Dr. Julie Gerberding

We don't know how many more mutations are required. But at this point, we still have some time. - Yoshihiro Kawaoka

This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map. - Francis Crick

This resistance allows the cells to hang in there longer, potentially passing on genetic mutations to daughter cells which can result in a cancer that is not sensitive to treatment. - Qingyi Wei