heritable

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But Mr. Zipperstein builds a biography that shuttles us back to the fiction, heritable or not, where the man hid in plain sight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Prenatal genome editing sits within the broader spectrum of human genome editing, which ranges from germline, where the changes are heritable, to somatic cell, where the patient’s descendants won’t inherit the changes.

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2024

Coffee drinking is a heritable habit, and one that carries a certain amount of genetic baggage.

From Science Daily • Jun. 18, 2024

IVF aims to help couples achieve pregnancy when medical issues or concerns about heritable genetic mutations raise concerns about the health of their prospective offspring.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2024

Like Mendel, Morgan began by identifying heritable traits—visible variants that he could track over generations.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee