The phrase "a different strand" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a separate or distinct aspect of a topic or idea, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "In our discussion of the project, we should consider a different strand that focuses on sustainability."
Alternatives: "another aspect" or "a separate thread".
My grandpa passed away from it, a bit of a different strand of it".
He points to a different strand of economic research -- "transaction cost economics" -- that also needs to be taken into account.
However, a different strand of reform activity focuses on replacing shareholder governance with an alternative stakeholder approach.
The former is more likely, given that Jiang is 84, but he also represents a different strand of opinion about the future direction of the party and the nation.
At precisely the same time that President Clinton arrived to a colorfully choreographed welcoming ceremony in Xian this evening, a remarkable drama about a different strand of China-United States relations was wrapping up at Shanghai International Airport.
A few months ago the party looked set to tear itself apart, with no fewer than five front-runners, each representing a different strand of conservatism, vying for supremacy.
If a pair's homologs were found to be still adjacent but with a different strand-wise arrangement, then the pair was designated 'inverted'inverted
Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was used to test functional gene status of a different-strand CDS-overlapping gene pair involving an SSOG by employing QuantiTect SYBR Green (Qiagen) one-step chemistry.
Such an ensemble of different strand associations that interconvert frequently into each other may be needed to allow for sliding of the strands along each other toward an energetically favorable folding intermediate rather than being trapped into a local, kinetically stable, free energy minimum.
Well there are a few different strands to unpick.
A different research strand argues that top managers' personal characteristics have the greatest impact on managerial replacement success during distress (Boeker 1997; Hall 1994; Ling et al. 2007).
