For instance, alcohol consumption by a pregnant woman can lead to fetal alcohol syndrome, an incurable and damaging condition.
Byne's disease, more accurately known as Bynesian decay, is a peculiar and permanently damaging condition (resulting from an on-going chemical reaction) which often attacks mollusk shells that are in storage or on display for long periods of time.
The technique represents a major departure from the systems typically used to create solar cells, which require exposing the substrates to potentially damaging conditions, either in the form of liquids or high temperatures.
The working principle of the Wells turbine, used in the ocean energy extraction, can sometimes lead to stall in the turbine blades and stators' vanes, which is an unintended action considering that creates potentially damaging conditions to the mechanical components, plus reducing the efficiency of the take-off system.
If kept untreated, a series of damaging conditions continue to accumulate, resulting in continued degeneration and dysfunction [5].
If you wouldn't eat factory farmed chicken because of the unethical treatment of the animals and the environmentally damaging conditions, why would you wear fur where the animals had suffered similarly deplorable conditions?
All organisms have stress responses that allow them to sense and respond to damaging conditions by altering gene expression.
Although stress responses are important for reacting to damaging conditions, many stress proteins also play important roles in basic cellular physiology.
It has been proposed that a selective advantage of polyploidy in prokaryotes could be a higher resistance to DNA damaging conditions, especially those that induce DNA double strand breaks.
As nematodes respire aerobically, they cannot be permanent resident in anoxic sediments and, to avoid damaging conditions associated with long-term exposure to anoxia, they need the capacity to move away [66], [70], [71].
In addition, these genes also show dis-regulation in DNA damaging conditions.
