Science Daily - Forced Evolution: Can we Mutate Viruses to Death?
An article that describes the modeling and formulaic advances made recently with the evolution of viruses. The scientist from this study hopes they can get models for viral evolution so precise that by knowing just a few features of a given system they can predict the fitness of a viral population. This could be useful because it could help to establish a point where a virus goes through a 'phase transition' (e.g. water goes from liquid to gas) and therefore 'de-localizes' and stops being dangerous to its host.
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