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“Your father can track my movements. If he sees me trying to escape, he will think I am defective, and he will send me away to be destroyed.”

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The retron-based system can swap out long sections of defective DNA for healthy ones.

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Flies with the defective gene exhibited behaviors consistent with inner ear dysfunction, such as impaired hearing and balance issues.

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Many dynasty trusts are set up to be “intentionally defective grantor trusts.”

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Portugal's Air and Rail Accident Investigations Bureau said an underground cable - which acted as a counterweight between two carriages and broke, prompting the crash - was defective and had never been certified for passenger transportation.

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