The phrase "attempts to express" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to convey thoughts, feelings, or ideas in writing or speech.
Example: "The author makes several attempts to express the complexity of human emotions throughout the novel."
Alternatives: "tries to convey" or "seeks to communicate".
Several attempts to express CDH in the bacterial expression system Escherichia coli failed because of the different post-translational modifications of the two domains.
Progress in revealing the functional properties and pharmacological sensitivities of this non-canonical Nav channel has been slow because attempts to express this channel in a heterologous expression system have been unsuccessful.
These specific inhibitors supplement the set of tools available for studying this isomerase, which at present is very limited, mostly because attempts to express the enzyme in different over-expression systems have been unsuccessful.
Attempts to express NS1 protein in prokaryotic and yeast expression system result in formation of insoluble protein which needs to undergo refolding to attain native structural and functional forms.
Most attempts to express dengue NS1 in E. coli and yeast expression system have ended up with insoluble protein.
His early attempts to express some of this were not in words but in sculpture.
This crummiest of all adjectives attempts to express an idea that is both vague and silly.
Our attempts to express the full-length protein in a soluble form in Escherichia coli and in transgenic plants failed.
These codon usage biases sometimes frustrate attempts to express high levels of exogenous genes in hosts of widely divergent species.
But its allure contrasts starkly with Mr. Waters's blunter attempts to express in visual terms the complexity of the book.
In the meantime, Taiwan's prosecutors and judges have been strongly warned about any further attempts to express their thespian talents.
