The phrase "and so less able" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to express a decrease in capability or ability, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "Due to the lack of resources, the team is struggling and so less able to meet the project deadlines."
Alternatives: "and therefore less capable" or "and thus less competent."
More critical of fiction, and so less able to be absorbed?
Aspirin makes blood platelets less sticky and so less able to clot in the bloodstream.
Companies complained that the review left them unable to attract funds, and so less able to invest in infrastructure.
Prebble warned of the dangers of the BBC gathering too many of its journalists in its new Broadcasting House headquarters in London's West End, saying: "A large group of people working together are in danger of becoming more homogenous in their thinking, not less, and so less able to see when the output reflects a narrow outlook".
Yet however useful to people, a tga1 mutation would have been detrimental to teosinte, making it more vulnerable to destruction in the digestive tract of the consumer and so less able to disperse its seeds.
A brittle material is usually hard so less able to accommodate work; thus, it can easily be broken.
At the moment, they tend to be less well-trained and resourced than al-Qaeda itself, and so are less able to mount catastrophic attacks.
This means that the stem cells are no longer able to divide and so become less able to replace exhausted specialized cells in the tissues of our bodies," explained researcher Aziz Aboobaker.
Thus, in response to MP-MUS glioblastoma increase their mitochondrial levels, but these mitochondria are poorly energized and so are less able to maintain normal ATP production.
Economic status: Poorer communities have fewer resources to take effective actions on their own, and so are less able to overcome other negative contextual factors such as a weak civil society network, a non-responsive public health system or overly centralized government.
