The phrase "also served to detect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the functions or purposes of a tool, method, or process that includes detection as one of its roles.
Example: "The new software not only improves efficiency but also served to detect potential errors in the system."
Alternatives: "also functioned to identify" or "additionally helped to uncover".
Fortunately, the tests developed to detect volume responsiveness can also serve to detect volume unresponsiveness.
However, the immune system also serves to detect and eliminate aberrant cells, including cancer cells, which could potentially cause harm.
To some degree, measures that best characterize "healthy aging" are likely to overlap with those that characterize "frailty", such that indices that identify "frail" individuals may also serve to detect healthy aging as well [ 24].
These tests can also serve to detect volume unresponsiveness, which could be helpful at any moment of fluid resuscitation to better assess the benefit/risk ratio of continuing such a strategy [ 59].
Apart from offering continuous and objective data, this approach may also serve to detect fall events once they have happened, being aware of the fact that many falls go by undetected and a person may lie injured hours or even days in her or his flat.
They proposed that this region may serve to detect synchrony between auditory and visual stimuli [see also Macaluso et al., 2004; Stevenson et al., 2010].
Lateral line system, also called lateralis system, a system of tactile sense organs, unique to aquatic vertebrates from cyclostome fishes (lampreys and hagfish) to amphibians, that serves to detect movements and pressure changes in the surrounding water.
Toxicity tests in ecotoxicology serve to detect and quantify toxic properties of chemical substances.
Olfaction serves to detect environmental chemical information.
The use of two independent wild type controls also served to reduce the chance of detecting transcripts which may have large natural variances in abundance but do not dramatically impact phenotype.
