The phrase "a defect in some" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing issues or flaws that affect a subset of a group or category.
Example: "The report highlighted a defect in some of the manufactured products, leading to a recall."
Alternatives: "a flaw in certain" or "an issue in some".
That's a defect in some respects.
Could it have been a defect in some piece of the plane's accessories — radio batteries, carbon-dioxide fire extinguishers, and so on?
(BLOOMBERG NEWS) Two Carriers Suspend Sales of Motorola's Cellphone Cingular Wireless and T-Mobile USA temporarily stopped selling Motorola's popular Razr phones this week because of a defect in some of them that causes calls to disconnect.
The company announced this morning that a defect in some of its battery cells could affect all of the battery packs produced by its new factory in Livonia, Michigan.
To assess whether this lack of infectivity was due to an RNA replication defect, or a defect in some other step in the virus life cycle, we replaced the different structural domains of GBV-B 5'NTR (Fig. 1A) with the corresponding domains of the H77 strain of genotype 1a HCV [31] within the backbone of a dicistronic, subgenomic GBV-B replicon [neo-RepD, Ref. 30].
This is explained by a defect in some transport components [ 25].
A defect in which some of the cell walls in a honeycomb structure are missing causes the cell walls at the defect tip to be more heavily loaded than other walls.
In other words, only with direct discrimination is there a defect in how some outcome is brought about, rather than in what the outcome itself is.
Flow cytometry analysis of the repair defective mutants revealed that most of them exhibited a defect in cell cycle progression, and some caused genome instability.
It follows that, should some of the remaining MCRA cases be caused by a defect in DNA repair or by some other form of hypermutation, the somatic mutation spectrum will reflect the underlying cause of genomic instability.
When they screened the KE family to see if some carried a defect in this gene, all affected members turned out to share a specific mutation that apparently rendered FOXP2 inactive, the group reports in the 4 October issue of Nature.
