The phrase "ability to isolate a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's skill or capacity to separate or distinguish a particular element or factor from a larger context.
Example: "The scientist demonstrated her ability to isolate a specific variable in the experiment to ensure accurate results."
Alternatives: "capacity to separate a" or "skill in distinguishing a".
In the interest of safety -- namely, fire and electrical system protection -- it's important to have the ability to isolate a piece of equipment, either by a standard switch or, if need be, through a circuit breaker.
In order to test the usefulness of the bacteriophage M13 phage display system implemented with pTP262, a sub-library was constructed and tested for the ability to isolate a gene by biopanning.
The ability to isolate a relatively large number of pure CTCs is necessary for these downstream applications.
The pioneering experiments by Lacy and Kostianovsky provided the fundamental means to introduce islet transplantation as an effective therapy to correct hyperglycemia through the ability to isolate a sufficient number of metabolically active and intact islets from rodent pancreata.
The ability to isolate an antibody that can recognize free Aflatoxin from a simple bio-panning procedure underscores the high quality of our compact library.
The advantage of QCT for the measurement of bone densities is the ability to isolate an area of interest from surrounding tissues.
One of the strengths of our approach is the ability to isolate all of the variables on an annual basis in order to test the sensitivity of particular parameters.
The ability to isolate only a function element that is being tested improves the efficiency of operation of the electric power system by eliminating the need for an outage during the testing.
To demonstrate the purity and specificity of analyte isolation from complex samples using the SLIDE, we evaluated the ability to isolate GFP from a complex cell lysate containing GFP, RFP, and cellular proteins.
The ability to isolate droplets containing an active enzyme that produces a fluorescent product was tested by measuring the enrichment of hits from an overwhelming majority of droplets containing an inactive variant.
We next applied these rules to the creation of a synthetic diversity library based on natural frameworks with significantly decreased incorporation of such motifs and demonstrated its ability to isolate binders to a wide panel of antigens.
