The phrase "albeit defective" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to acknowledge a limitation or flaw in something while still recognizing its value or existence.
Example: "The prototype was functional, albeit defective, and provided valuable insights for further development."
Alternatives: "although flawed" or "even if imperfect".
To save money, he took hammer and nail in hand and built himself a shelf – albeit a defective one.
Cytosolic extracts from Traf6 −/− primary MEF cells were severely, albeit not completely, defective in supporting IRF3 dimerization and IκBα phosphorylation in vitro, and these defects were rescued by adding back wild-type TRAF6.
The shape of the measured isotherms more closely fits to simulated isotherms of defective materials, albeit with the adsorption onset at higher p/ p and lower saturation values, thus indicating that the real samples contain fewer vacancies than the modeled ones.
In this study however, it was virus in the supernatant which appeared to contain defective virion particles, albeit at a low level.
Moreover, we found that also migration and proliferation are altered in the mutant HP, albeit only in concomitance with defective EGFR expression.
The finding that NK cells are already defective in paediatric CHB, albeit less extensively than in adult CHB, has potential implications for the timing of anti-viral therapy aiming to restore immune control.
Myotonic muscular dystrophy type 1 and myotonic muscular dystrophy type 2 are both caused by a genetic mutation, albeit on different chromosomes, that results in defective RNA, the molecule that translates DNA into proteins.
Further, while there is correlation between defective proliferation and VSG accumulation, albeit with some exceptions (e.g. BiP), this does not hold for ISGs.
3. The mice with the defective IgG3 heavy chain gene died, albeit later than their counterparts; was there any effect of the transgene on the general lymphoproliferative disease of the mice?
