{"id":2383067,"date":"2005-10-24T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2005\/10\/24\/Species-evolve-to-the-brink-of-evolution\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T00:02:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T00:02:19","slug":"Species-evolve-to-the-brink-of-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=2383067","title":{"rendered":"Species evolve to the brink of evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='sustuff'>Stumbleupon <a href='http:\/\/bunty.stumbleupon.com\/review\/2383067\/'>Review<\/a> of :<br \/>\n\t<a href='http:\/\/www.brightsurf.com\/news\/headlines\/view.article.php?ArticleID=20738'>http:\/\/www.brightsurf.com\/news\/headlines\/view.article.php?ArticleID=20738<\/a><a href='http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/url\/www.brightsurf.com\/news\/headlines\/view.article.php%3FArticleID=20738'><img src='http:\/\/bunty.tv\/images\/smallstumble.png'><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>A biologist at The University of Texas at Austin has presented a new theory that sheds light on how organisms, including viruses like HIV, rapidly evolve in the face of vaccines and antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lauren Ancel Meyers says the new model could help identify genes that increase a pathogen&#8217;s ability to evolve quickly against immune responses. Knowing those genes could help scientists develop new and better vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Meyers&#8217; model predicts that populations can evolve &#8220;genetic potential&#8221; genes that can create new traits quickly and simply in changing environments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fluctuating environments, you may get populations evolving right to the brink of evolution,&#8221; says Meyers. The organisms are poised to evolve in the face of environmental shifts, because they have genes that can produce a new trait essential to their survival with one or two simple mutations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review of : http:\/\/www.brightsurf.com\/news\/headlines\/view.article.php?ArticleID=20738 A biologist at The University of Texas at Austin has presented a new theory that sheds light on how organisms, including viruses like HIV, rapidly evolve in the face of vaccines and antibiotics. Dr. Lauren &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=2383067\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383067"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2383067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2383067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2383067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2383067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}