The phrase "anchor from which to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a foundational point or reference from which further actions or ideas can be developed or explored.
Example: "The research serves as an anchor from which to build our understanding of climate change."
Alternatives: "foundation from which to" or "starting point from which to".
Assuming the defect in sour taste of these two patients to be peripheral, i.e., at the level of the taste bud, we saw their psychophysical documentation as a firm anchor from which to search for suspected molecular elements of sour taste.
For the first locus we split the half-sibs into two seed groups based on the strand they inherited from the sire to provide an anchor from which to extend the blocks.
A reference genome can vary significantly from that of any individual strain or isolate and therefore serves as the anchor from which to explore the diversity of allele and gene complements and to explore how these differences contribute to metabolic and phenotypic variation.
What we don't have in common is that she must have had terrifically nurturing parents, who encouraged her talent and gave her a safe anchor in the world, from which to sail to such fascinating intellectual ports.
In this case, plan or project becomes an instrument to cast anchors, create reference points or cornerstones2 from which to depart to define transformations that will incorporate and perpetuate them, although keeping the flexibility needed to come to terms with a steadily evolving world.
This latter strategy engages RP processing, with the reference tone serving as an anchor from which interval judgments are made to identify remaining tones.
"I am a trans woman of color, and that identity has enabled me to be truer to myself, offering me an anchor from which I can uplift my visible blackness, my often invisible trans womanhood, my little-talked-about native Hawaiian heritage, and the many iterations of womanhood they combine," she writes.
Yet the most pronounced change in Williams' game has come on the glass, where his career mark of 6.2 rebounds per 36 minutes – a statistical anchor from which he's barely strayed in his season-to-season performance – has been dwarfed by the 8.9 rebounds per 36 that Williams has collected in his first six games of the year.
This forward-genetic approach provides an alternative means for dissecting the molecular genetic control of neuronal population dynamics, with each genomic locus serving as a causal anchor from which we may ultimately understand the developmental principles responsible for the control of those traits.
Not only that, but Dr Jekyll functions as an identity anchor from which Mr. Hyde departs.
FIFA is the anchor from which you can never stray too far, despite the repeated defeats, broken friendships, and controllers flung against the wall (if you've never broken a controller in a fit of FIFA rage, you can leave this little gathering of failed nerds immediately).
