Where the adjective is used to modify damage, the meaning becomes "unintended, inadvertent".
But genome editing could also be used to modify human sperm, eggs and embryos.
In 1996, structural abnormalities visible on a sonogram were used to modify the blood-test risk estimate.
Unfavourable slope characteristics are used to modify these values downward as experience may warrant.
There are some substances that can be controlled, like the reagents used to modify DNA.
Some fear that the procedure could be used to modify human sperm, eggs and embryos for clinical uses before it is safe to do so.
Voted the "catch-all superlative" of last year by the American Dialect Society, weapons-grade has been used to modify everything from a Toyota's torque output to Elvis Presley's charisma.
During committee stage the Liberal Democrat MP David Howarth warned that the bill could even be used to modify itself and thus grant ministers greater arbitrary powers.
Warren is seeking its own patent on what it calls carbamylated EPO, or CEPO, after the chemical process used to modify the protein.
The report emphasised that "flexibility in the fiscal framework should be used to modify the pace of adjustment in the event of weaker demand growth".
