Have you ever wondered why you have to get a flu shot every year, but some vaccines are one-and-done? It all has to do with how and how fast viruses evolve - and that depends on mutation rates.

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The vast diversity of living organisms on earth represents the evolvability of life. However, this inherent characteristic can be easily influenced by several mechanisms that can increase the ...

Why do viruses like SARS-CoV-2 happen and why are they becoming more frequent? Viruses keep jumping out of nature and into humans and getting us very sick in the process. So why do zoonotic spillovers ...