The phrase "adapt to modify" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts where one is discussing the need to adjust something in order to change or improve it.
Example: "In order to meet the new requirements, we must adapt to modify our existing processes."
Alternatives: "adjust to change" or "alter to improve".
An automatic optimisation tool is adapted to modify the control laws for minimum actuator deflection rates, which can be turned into weight savings for the overall aircraft.
Therefore, they can be easily adapted to modify tags or to adjust cassettes for use in other cell types or organisms for which inducible Cre recombinases are available.
The key idea of QMDR can be easily adapted to modify Cox-MDR and AFT-MDR since both the martingale and standardized residuals are quantitative variables.
In the same way as bumblebees have adapted their foraging behaviour to reduce the uptake of parasites (Fouks & Lattorff, 2011), bumblebees may be adapted to modify their diet with curative nectars once infected.
A natural biofilm-forming photosynthetic consortia was collected from a pond in Columbia, MD and adapted to modified BG-11 medium that lacked citrate as previously described [10].
Tumor cells adapt to and modify their surrounding microenvironment [ 82].
When favourable nutritional conditions are encountered, bacteria will proliferate to form established multicellular communities that have the potential to adapt to and modify their environment.
C. glabrata has several traits that have been linked to virulence, including a repertoire of adhesins, the ability to adapt to and modify the macrophage phagolysosomal environment, and an inherent resistance to azole antifungals (Pfaller 2012).
Recently, various approaches have been adapted to chemically modify the siRNAs to increase its nuclease resistance as well as its intracellular uptake [17], [42], [43].
