inducible

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The researchers were able to turn inducible oncogenic genes on using "optogenetics."

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

There are three ways to control the transcription of an operon: repressive control, activator control, and inducible control.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Here, Francois Spitz and colleagues perform an inducible deletion of the cohesin-loading factor Nipbl in liver cells in mice.

From Nature • Sep. 26, 2017

These reprogrammed cells are designated inducible pluripotent stem cells and can be generated from any tissue or organ of an individual.

From Scientific American • Jan. 11, 2013

Many things are true in divinity, which are neither inducible by reason nor confirmable by sense; and many things in philosophy confirmable by sense, yet not inducible by reason.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir