heritable

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"We hope this new technique of visualizing synaptic membrane dynamics in live brain tissue samples can help us understand similarities and differences in nonheritable and heritable forms of the condition," Watanabe says.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025

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

In fact, molecular biologists believe that neurodivergent conditions arise due to a combination of heritable and environmental factors.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2025

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