The phrase "advance a shift" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing promoting or facilitating a change in perspective, approach, or operation.
Example: "The new policy aims to advance a shift towards more sustainable practices within the organization."
Alternatives: "promote a change" or "foster a transition".
However, to fully exploit these genomic advances, a shift from a quantitative to a qualitative genetic locus will ultimately be required to isolate the gene(s) underlying these grain size and yield effects.
The announcements, according to analysts briefed on them in advance, signal a shift from defense to offense in the company's mainframe strategy.
Of course that could change, too, and wouldn't it be ironic if the breakthrough to popular video telephony ended up not being any technological advance, but a shift in human vanity.
Rarely, QoL ratings are done in advance of a shift (ADRQL: 12.4%; QUALIDEM: 13.3%).
As imaging technologies advance, a paradigm shift is emerging in the assessment of tumor response to therapy.
But for all the contradictions in its policies — and there are many — Qatar is advancing a decisive shift in Arab politics that many in the West have yet to embrace: a Middle East dominated by mainstream Islamist parties brought to power in a region that is more democratic, more conservative and more tumultuous.
The time period of particular interest to this research is the 19th and 20th century, a period of change, where advancing technologies enabled a shift from handmade to mass produced machine paper.
For enzymes amenable to high-resolution techniques, such as DHFR and CypA, these technical advances are catalyzing a shift from asking "can we describe protein dynamics" to "what is the role of protein dynamics in function".
As the current methods cannot meet the requirements for large-scale embryo-electronic systems, this article advances a new shift-register-based configuration memory of embryonic system to solve the problem by using the inter-cell communication to reduce the gene storage capacity of a single cell.
The third factor is automation and technology advances which have encouraged a shift from workers to machines — "technological change connected with improvements in information and communication technologies, which has raised the marginal productivity and return to capital relative to labor".
Specific inhibitors against the BA 7 α-dehydroxylating pathway, which eliminate secondary BA productions, would provide further advances in understanding how a shift in BA pool composition impacts both host physiology, as well as microbiome structure-function.
