Sentences with phrase «damaged copy»

One author did tell me that she always seems to get at least one damaged copy in every order, but also that they were very accommodating about replacing the defective copies.
If the function of these genes can eventually be worked out, treatments might be found to improve the mental capacity of patients carrying damaged copies.
It is an unfortunate reality that an author may find himself with a garage full of damaged copies of returned books, after only being stocked on the shelves of a major book retailer for a month or two.
Now, however, a team led by Merajver and another headed by Ellen Solomon and John Trowsdale of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London say that they have both found damaged copies of BRCA1 in ovarian tumours from women with no family history of cancer (Nature Genetics, vol 9, p 343 and 439).
«Each mutation is very uncommon and thus the likelihood of carrying two damaged copies of the gene is extremely rare.»
The two parents are healthy because each carries a copy of the gene that works, but their child inherits two damaged copies.
The scheme I sketched in the notebook was vastly oversimplified, because Ginger had two damaged copies of the gene (genes come in pairs), and the differences between her set and mine entailed more than one letter.
D'Andrea thinks Fanconi may arise when both copies of any of the eight Fanconi or BRCA genes are mutated, while one damaged copy can make people vulnerable to breast and other cancers.
Even if it does replicate, he said, it would be a damaged copy.
Using cancer drug vorinostat, Kennedy believes he can boost the one working copy of TCF4 to compensate for the damaged copy — like turning up the radio when it has one broken speaker.
Two groups have recently improved upon the CRISPR - Cas9 technique, using it to cut and inactivate only the damaged copy of the gene.
An additional copy may be made to replace a lost or damaged copy.
eBook adoption in school libraries stands to result in a significant savings for both public and private centers» budgets, given the typically lower cost of titles and the elimination of damaged copies.
If the dealer or customer gets a damaged copy from your printer, allow them to send it back to you and you replace the damaged book at no cost, of course.
I picked it up for about a tenner, which I thought was a pretty good price for a used and damaged copy (which is what I was expecting).
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