The phrase "a reported ability to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's skills or capabilities that have been mentioned or claimed by others, often in a context where the information is not verified.
Example: "The athlete has a reported ability to run a mile in under four minutes, although this has yet to be officially confirmed."
Alternatives: "an alleged capability to" or "a claimed skill to".
Daniel Dunglas Home (pronounced 'Hume') (20 March 1833 – 21 June 1886) was a Scottish physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead, and to produce rapping and knocks in houses at will.
In a recent article, Taura syndrome virus (TSV), exclusively a pathogen of penaeid shrimp, was attributed a zoonotic potential because of its reported ability to infect cultured human and monkey cells (1 ).
The use of tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) in cancer therapy has long been an attractive goal given its reported ability to induce apoptosis in cancer cells but not normal cells in a variety of oncologic malignancies.
Optimal vitamin D status may help prevent bone metastasis by a fairly straightforward intervention through its reported ability to attenuate inflammation and proliferation, while promoting apoptosis and differentiation.
The combination of the wider dynamic range of mRNA-Seq, in addition to its previously reported ability to provide a better estimate of absolute expression levels [ 45], confirms mRNA-Seq as the preferred methodology for transcript quantification.
This is in line with a high reported ability of SkQ and MitoQ to easily penetrate through biological membranes [ 14].
We confirmed the reported ability of a linked Grx1 to accelerate the equilibration of roGFP with a glutathione buffer: alone, reduced roGFP2 was only slowly oxidized by glutathione, but the linked Grx1 markedly accelerated the oxidation of Grx1-roGFP2.
The younger Stubbs extensively surveyed 60 years of studies of color vision in cephalopods, and discovered that, while some biologists had reported an ability to distinguish colors, others reported the opposite.
A recent finding reported an ability to degrade ZEA in the bacterium Rhodococcus pyridinivorans, although the detoxification mechanism of the strain is not yet known [ 15].
Most residents reported an ability to handle day to day life demands (97% reported fair to excellent ability), with no differences between genders.
