How to Use inheritable in a Sentence

inheritable

adjective
  • And, despite the fierce debate over pensions, the text was fuzzy on whether old-age savings would be inheritable.
    — Andres Velasco, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2022
  • What can and can’t be drawn from your research to better our understanding of inheritable trauma in humans?
    — Nicholas Stfleur, STAT, 12 Apr. 2024
  • And that this kind of treatment was designed to be inheritable, and presumably perpetual in nature.
    — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 19 June 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Francis’s group suggests that noise pollution may lead to inheritable changes in specific species and populations.
    — Wudan Yan, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Your family history is also something to think about, as with any condition with an inheritable component.
    — Carolyn Todd, Allure, 17 May 2018
  • Funding for research for sickle cell disease is significantly less than the funding for other inheritable childhood diseases.
    — Janice Blanchard, Scientific American, 18 Dec. 2023
  • In 2017, the FDA approved gene therapy for an inheritable form of blindness.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2018
  • 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
  • The repair, reported in August in Nature, corrected an inheritable heart condition, passed down by the embryo’s father, the study’s lone sperm donor.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2017
  • Those characteristics must be inheritable — that is, passed on with some fidelity from generation to generation.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Nov. 2018
  • Summary Rickets is a health condition that develops in children who do not get enough vitamin D or may have developed as an inheritable condition.
    — Patty Weasler, Rn, Bsn, Verywell Health, 13 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In Germany, courts ruled that Facebook had to give a deceased person’s family access to their account, saying that digital accounts should be treated as inheritable property, like a bank account or house.
    — Patrick Van Esch, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Citizenship strategy has moved from a fringe consideration to standard practice among high-net-worth families, with parents and grandparents increasingly viewing passports as a form of inheritable wealth.
    — Alex Ohnona, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Epigenetics are inheritable traits that don't effect DNA sequencing, but typically stem from life experiences.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2018
  • 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
  • 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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