Sentence examples for acquire a capacity from inspiring English sources

Although our experiments showed that A/H5N1 virus can acquire a capacity for airborne transmission, the efficiency of this mode remains unclear.

The formation of tumours and distant metastases require that tumour cells acquire a capacity to proliferate exhaustively and to colonize foreign tissues.

During the transition from the inner cell mass (ICM) cells of blastocysts to pluripotent embryonic stem cells (ESCs) in vitro, a normal developmental program is replaced in cells that acquire a capacity for infinite self-renewal and pluripotency.

Here was a man of passion and wit, with the scent of victory in his nostrils, who finally seemed to have acquired a capacity for the speech-maker's knockout blow.

This forges a novel view of social systems as complex, individuating sequences of communicative interactions that together constitute distributed yet distinct cognitive agencies, acquiring a capacity to exert influence over their human-constituted environment.

While the hypothetical nonevolving populations went extinct for harvest rates exceeding 0.5 year−1, the evolving populations acquired a capacity for withstanding considerably higher harvest rates.

After three to six rounds of biopanning, phage recovery and phage amplification of the bound particles, any phage that had acquired a capacity to bind the matrix was sequenced.

In approximately 20% of primary breast cancers, the tumor cells have acquired a capacity to increase their survival and proliferation by overexpressing the human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER) 2 [ 1, 2].

In April 2013, the Thai NIC in Nonthaburi acquired A(H7N9) testing capacity and has since trained 14 regional laboratories (33 ).

The 2007 Israeli destruction of an illicit Syrian reactor demonstrated the effectiveness of conventional military strikes in stymieing secret attempts to acquire a nuclear capacity.

John Negroponte, the director of National Intelligence, has said, in his most recent public assessment, that the American intelligence community believes that Iran may acquire a nuclear capacity some time in the next decade, meaning from 2010 or 2011 onward.