However, in certain types of cancer, telomere regulation of cell life span is rendered dysfunctional.
Guinea-Bissau fits the picture of an African state rendered dysfunctional by violent disorder.Yet that picture has become less common.
We were supposed to see a dysfunctional family, and instead we saw a functional family rendered dysfunctional by the fact of the show.
But he renders dysfunctional relationships and teenage hopes and fears brilliantly, and the gruesome, community-shattering impact of foot-and-mouth is brought home with real power.
Agyness Deyn plays Chris Guthrie, the young woman living with her brother and father in a remote farmhouse, a family rendered dysfunctional by the death of Chris's mother.
In watching the movie and being drawn into Eastwood's view of a society rendered dysfunctional by its misplaced sympathies, I found myself seeing something else at the same time: a view of a society and the very idea of what society means.
Talent-driven firms can be torn apart by feuds or rendered dysfunctional by egocentric behaviour: clever people are as clever at finding reasons to argue with each other as they are at thinking up new ideas.Stars can burn youA creative environment can often be a toxic one.
The p53 tumor suppressor gene is rendered dysfunctional in the majority of human cancers.
At 73, I've been rendered dysfunctional by technology.
Its already troubled parliamentary democracy has been rendered dysfunctional in the aftermath of the 7 June election.
As strongly inferred in the downgrade of U.S. government debt by ratings agency Standard & Poor's, the democratic political system in the United States, and by extension in the U.K. and Eurozone, has been rendered dysfunctional due to general ineptitude, economic ignorance and ruinous internecine political conflict.
