It could be a gene that, defective in some way, predisposes a person to disease.
As it is, he anticipates that soon 70% of recruits will have defective vision.
But in many patients, the CFTR protein is not only defective, but buried in the cell.
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All four carmakers have said that they will replace the defective parts for free.
Android smartphones that do not receive regular, prompt security updates are defective and unreasonably dangerous.
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But over four to six years the genetically defective cells slowly accumulate more mutations.
When companies break the law or produce a defective product, they should, and are, held accountable.
Another technique that's gaining adherents is something called an installment sale to a defective trust.
"Gasoline containing MTBE is not a defective product, " argues Andrew Langan, a lawyer working for BP.
If state suits were allowed, tort lawyers would argue the old product is defective.
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But it could also be the opposite: that the wound-sealing amyloid they are producing is defective.
What consumers deserve is a standardized, industry-wide refund policy for defective entertainment both digital and physical.
It was as if Calipari had met his sales quota but ultimately delivered defective product.
But in cystic fibrosis, a defective gene causes the secretions to become thick and sticky.
The financial industry is "a very defective system, " he said at a press conference Sunday.
They, in turn, are suing the Chinese manufacturers that supplied the allegedly defective wallboard.
But a defective ATM gene can interfere with p53 thereby allowing potentially cancerous cells to multiply.
The cars pursued him with flashing blue lights after officers spotted a defective rear light.
In others, regulators can shut down a company, quarantine and or seize defective product immediately.
For years there have been scandals in the Russian military over defective equipment and bullying.
They really should have come up with a better name, but for some reason defective stuck.
The warranty on the previous-generation LEAF's battery covered it against defective materials or workmanship for five years.
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My biggest fear is not that by accident we will set loose some genetically defective Andromeda strain.
Each year businesses spend tens of billions of dollars installing software that they know to be defective.
Rather than own up to it, our customer insisted that we had sold him a defective tube.
California is structurally defective and without progress there, all the grand ideas will be but hollow mockeries.
And maybe chief executive officers of defense contractors that manufactured defective munitions should work with wounded veterans.
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Mr Bernanke blames Japan's defective banking system and a lack of determination by policymakers to fight deflation.
People legally judged to be "mentally defective" are among those blocked by federal law from firearms purchases.
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