How to Use inheritable in a Sentence
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In 2017, the FDA approved gene therapy for an inheritable form of blindness.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2018
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With this in mind, one could be forgiven for assuming that Rafal or Thuy carried some inheritable condition and wanted to break the chain.
—Wired, 6 July 2022
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A few years ago, nobody from his Dinka tribe would allow their daughters to marry him for fear that his genes carried some inheritable blunder.
—Deirdre Fernandes, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2018
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Though an Australian study released last year found inbreeding may put thoroughbreds at greater risk of inheritable health problems, at least two Ph.
—Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 26 Dec. 2019
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And that this kind of treatment was designed to be inheritable, and presumably perpetual in nature.
—Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 19 June 2020
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But research presented at the event showed scientists have honed their gene-editing skills over the pastfive years and can now effectively treat some inheritable diseases.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
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Little strongly believed that cancer was an inheritable disease, and mice, short-lived and low maintenance, turned out to be the ideal subjects for his experiments.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2016
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The debate over human germ-line engineering—reworking genes in the sperm and egg to create inheritable new traits—sputtered out early in the last decade after gene therapy had a series of notable failures.
—Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2010
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The assets in such savings accounts would be inheritable, unlike the benefits from current U.S. social programs.
—Chris Edwards, National Review, 19 Aug. 2019
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The clustering of behaviors by breed suggests a genetic, and thus inheritable, component to anxiety, as is the case in humans, Lohi tells Science.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2020
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According to the National Cancer Institute, more than 50 different types of inheritable cancer have been identified, appearing in most major organs from the brain and colon to the thyroid gland and stomach.
—Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 July 2018
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Francis’s group suggests that noise pollution may lead to inheritable changes in specific species and populations.
—Wudan Yan, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
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African slaves were seen as property rather than people; Africans were racialized as Black to cement this enslaved status as permanent, inheritable and justifiable in the natural order.
—Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2015
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Yet bioethicists point out that inheritable-gene editing raises large questions, given the dire consequences of an error, as well as the ethical questions that arise at the prospect of erasing disability from human existence.
—Katie Hafner, Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
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Your family history is also something to think about, as with any condition with an inheritable component.
—Carolyn Todd, Allure, 17 May 2018
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Like Rafal Smigrodzki, Hsu is confident that public disapproval will ease, and that one day soon embryonic selection against inheritable diseases will be considered the norm.
—Wired, 6 July 2022
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After decades of research, gene therapies have begun reshaping the treatment of cancers and rare inheritable diseases with medicines that can modify or correct mutations embedded in people’s genetic code.
—Matthew Perrone, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2022
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After decades of research, gene therapies have begun reshaping the treatment of cancers and rare inheritable diseases with medicines that can modify or correct mutations embedded in people's genetic code.
—Matthew Perrone, ajc, 22 Nov. 2022
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Those characteristics must be inheritable — that is, passed on with some fidelity from generation to generation.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Nov. 2018
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And for the moment, the Food and Drug Administration is prohibited from using federal money to review research on inheritable embryo modification.
—Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2017
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In those days, before the scientific understanding of genetics and mutations, biologists could only try to imagine how small, inheritable changes to an organism could impact its reproduction.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
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Robert Koch is included in this illustrious list for his work in identifying the bacterial organism responsible for tuberculosis, once thought to be an inheritable disease.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2013
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Epigenetics are inheritable traits that don't effect DNA sequencing, but typically stem from life experiences.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2018
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