inducible

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

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

The lac operon is an example of inducible control because the presence of lactose “turns on” transcription of the genes for its own metabolism.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

We identified an efficient OCT4-targeting guide RNA using an inducible human embryonic stem cell-based system and microinjection of mouse zygotes.

From Nature • Sep. 19, 2017

Development of these inducible pluripotent stem cells has been one of the most significant developments in biology, particularly in the field of stem cell research.

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