In the cancer cells, that means
huge numbers of mutations that are good targets for immunotherapy.
But
huge numbers of mutations may occur every generation in the species as a whole.
Not exact matches
But hopes
of developing a simple genetic test dimmed when researchers realised that there are a
huge number of possible
mutations (This Week, 10 December 1994).
After decades
of arguing whether junk DNA exists, a study has calculated that without it we'd all have to reproduce in
huge numbers to escape harmful
mutations