The phrase "ability to confer a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity to grant or bestow something, often in a formal or academic context.
Example: "The committee has the ability to confer a degree upon students who meet the necessary requirements."
Alternatives: "capacity to grant a" or "power to bestow a".
Ms. Boylston is small, with an articulate quickness and the ability to confer a genuinely strange quality and energy to the ducking, angular movements.
In addition, the ability to confer a suppressive phenotype to CD4 cells or to engineer a susceptibility gene into effector cells provides new therapeutic avenues for graft versus host disease (GVHD), the most challenging adverse effect arising post ASCT.
Here, we compared three HIV-specific inhibitor genes for their potency of viral inhibition and for their ability to confer a selective advantage following HIV-1 infection in vitro and in vivo.
The lack of reliable data on the timing of DM onset relative to diagnosis of cirrhosis and HCC hinder our ability to confer a causal relationship.
A given genotype has the ability to confer a variety of phenotypes in the presence of different environmental factors; this ability is called plasticity.
A major limit of this approach resides in the labor-intensive cloning of resistant cells, identification of the integrated genes and validation of their ability to confer a selective advantage.
Functional screening of metagenomic libraries, that is, screening environmental DNA clones for the ability to confer an activity of interest to a heterologous bacterial host, is a promising approach for bridging the gap between metagenomic DNA sequencing and functional characterization.
When there are delays or itinerary changes, the ability to confer with a single alliance official helps solve problems even when travelers are arriving or departing on different carriers.
Doherty & Zinkernagel [51] proposed that polymorphism at MHC was related to the function of the peptide binding regions and ability to confer resistance to a wide range of pathogens.
We designed and tested a set of expression plasmids in L. lactis, originally characterized in E. faecalis, for their ability to confer expression of a transcriptional lacZ reporter gene in response to exogenously supplied cCF10 peptide (Supporting Information Figure S1).
This paradigm shift has spurred an intense search for novel interphase targets that combine the 'ideal' attributes of cancer-cell selectivity and the ability to confer vulnerability on a large proportion of tumor cells.
