"If you go to the likes of Dr. Zavos, he will give you a dead baby, a defective baby or a deformed baby, " said Art Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
The idea of treating disease by replacing a defective gene with a working copy gained credence in 1990 with the success of the world's first gene therapy clinical tests against a rare condition called severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).
Also, there can be an installment sale (when the value of the asset is low) to a defective grantor trust that is a completed transfer but not taxed for income tax purposes.
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Treasury Committee chairman and Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie said the bill was "defective in a number of respects".
Indeed, I know a family whose newborn daughter had a defective heart and had to have a heart transplant.
Consumers no longer trust Toyotas because a defective gas pedal, or possibly a malfunctioning electronic throttle control system, or maybe a poorly secured floor mat, can cause them to surge out of control.
"Gasoline containing MTBE is not a defective product, " argues Andrew Langan, a lawyer working for BP.
German national Mr Markus, 39, also faces charges of using a vehicle with defective brakes and breaching a 7.5 tonne weight limit.
The CPS said in February he was to be charged with dangerous driving, using a vehicle with defective brakes and breaching a 7.5 tonne weight limit.
It was disturbed by press reports occasioned by the leak of a draft version of the GAO report to the effect that the B-2 is not stealthy, has a defective radar system, is plagued with design flaws and is failing a host of basic tests.
Maybe it's a defective type of personality, but for people who like raising the bar, ultrarunning is a good way to do that.
The financial industry is "a very defective system, " he said at a press conference Sunday.
As Robert Leider, a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law points out in a Wall Street Journal opinion article, a federal law which generally prohibits the possession or acquisition of a firearm by a person who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or who has been committed to a mental institution is both under- and over-inclusive.
Toyota, which is recalling 1.73 million cars, said the vehicles had a defective part which "could cause the airbag inflator to rupture and deploy the airbag abnormally in a crash".
It could be a gene that, defective in some way, predisposes a person to disease.
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.
But in cystic fibrosis, a defective gene causes the secretions to become thick and sticky.
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.
Rather than own up to it, our customer insisted that we had sold him a defective tube.
Men have one X and one Y, so a defective gene on the X shows itself readily.
If not, they might want to exchange this defective product for a better one -- before it's too late.
And retailers can no longer be held liable for a defective product unless the retailer was actually responsible for it.
It was as if Obama presumed that everyone watching already knew the stuff Romney was selling was a defective product.
Asian people tend to have a high level of "good" cholesterol because they carry a defective version of this protein.
In August, a Fisker Karma vehicle caught fire in a parking lot in California, thanks to a defective cooling fan.
The game has a few high points but also has more disappointments than a bad motivator on a defective R2 unit.
To do so Summy had to designate the additive a defective product.
One of them targets a defective gene on the seventh chromosome, present in roughly 7% of all cancers, including most cases of melanoma.
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