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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a rather early phase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a stage in a process or development that occurs relatively early compared to other stages.
Example: "The project is still in a rather early phase, so we have plenty of time to make adjustments."
Alternatives: "a somewhat initial stage" or "a fairly preliminary phase".
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However, it should be clearly stated that, despite more than 15 years of tissue engineering research, such applications are still in a rather early phase.
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To date, the vast majority of the studies on mesothelioma markers seem to involve rather early-phase diagnostic studies (using retrospective, case control type of designs) (Fryback and Thornbury, 1991; Lijmer et al, 2009).
This expression correlates with late-phase inflammation, rather than early phase reactions and both IL-33 and ST2 are dispensable for the early phase response during anaphylaxis but are required to elicit a late phase inflammatory reaction, a mast cell-dependent process that has been undefined to date.
Rather he says research in the area of AI ethics is still in a relatively early phase.
This distinction was closely related to the severity of amnesia, i.e. an encoding disorder was observed rather in the early phase of TGA.
"This is a very early phase.
Some historians had contended that New York City experienced only a mild early phase of the 1918 epidemic.
The case comparison indicates that technological characteristics seem to have greater influence on the content of activities in the later phase rather than the early phase of path creation processes.
In contrast, CO exposure (250 ppm) did not directly activate JNK (Figure 6A), but rather delayed the early phase of LPS-induced JNK phosphorylation in THP-1 cells (Figure 6B).
Thus, sustained Hes1 expression promoted the preference for the mesodermal rather than the neuroectodermal and trophectodermal fates, but mesodermal differentiation seemed to be halted at an early phase.
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