The phrase "attempts at discovering" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts or endeavors to find out or learn something.
Example: "The researchers made several attempts at discovering the underlying causes of the disease."
Alternatives: "efforts to uncover" or "endeavors to find out".
Using a bioinformatics approach, our initial attempt at discovering putative gene fusions relied on analyzing single-end reads and identifying reads that aligned across exons of two different genes.
While most studies on imprinting address its underlying molecular mechanisms or attempt at discovering genomic regions that might be subject to imprinting, few have focused on the amount of phenotypic variation contributed by such epigenetic process.
To achieve early diagnosis, attempts have been made at discovering tumour markers.
The last 4 questions aimed at discovering details about the decision making process: consultation with a colleague, an attempt to treat the symptoms, duration of the treatment attempts (Table 1).
In attempting to discover at last the nature of his own individuality, he illuminates the basement, and himself, with thirteen hundred and sixty-nine light bulbs.
No doubt Facebook could tell you whether that's the case or not, but the optics on telling people directly are pretty bad — everyone would take a screenshot and post it with the caption "WTF!" or "OMG Facebook is broken!" We look forward to similar tools from other major companies that have discovered attempts at election interference on their platforms.
It was just one of several attempts discovered in recent years, with cats at other jails being used to deliver heroin, the paper noted.
As conventional treatments for lung cancer reach their limitations, researchers have attempted to discover novel drug therapies aimed at specific targets contributing to the progression of tumorigenesis.
