The phrase "a recent study detected" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to findings or observations made by a study conducted in the near past.
Example: "A recent study detected a significant increase in air pollution levels in urban areas."
Alternatives: "a recent study found" or "a recent study revealed".
However, a recent study detected fetal squamous cells in only 50 % AFE patients during the aspiration of pulmonary artery blood [6], whereas another report found that the presence of squamous cells in the maternal circulation was not always associated with AFE [11].
A recent study detected down-regulation of ribosomal RNA by ER stress [62].
A recent study detected living descendents of an extinct Galápagos tortoise species (Chelonoidis elephantopus) once endemic to Floreana Island on the neighboring island of Isabela.
A recent study detected by sequencing different HA subtype viruses that had not been detected by antigenic subtyping approaches (20 ).
A recent study detected antibodies to activin A type 1 receptor in the serum of asthmatics compared to controls, correlating with clinical disease.
In contrast, however, a recent study detected sFRP1 transcripts in the underlying mesenchymal cells, and not the epithelium, by in situ hybridisation (Gregorieff et al, 2005).
Apart from the above viruses, the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) has also been in the center of attention, due to its link with mammary cancer in mice, with a recent study detecting MMTV sequences in the milk of women who had undergone breast biopsies [ 12].
Recent studies detected microclots following aneurysmal SAH in humans and in models such as mice and rats [ 5, 19, 27– 31].
Finally, we detected Shh expression in pit and parietal cells of the gastric mucosa, whereas a recent study has detected Shh only in parietal cells (Fukaya et al, 2006).
In contrast to a recent study, we detected the expression of Dnmt2 in S2 cells (Figure S14) [44].
28,78-80 In a recent study we detected a significant decrease of circulating DCs in melanoma patients, compared to healthy volunteers.
