Sentence examples for hitherto unique from inspiring English sources

In his "white heat" speech Harold Wilson claimed that "the essence of modern automation is that it replaces the hitherto unique human functions of memory and of judgment"; computers now commanded "facilities of memory and of judgment far beyond the capacity of any human being or groups of human beings who have ever lived".

These results demonstrate that Esrrb can functionally substitute for the hitherto unique capacity of Nanog to reprogram Nanog −/− cells to naive pluripotency.

Recent evidence indicates that nNOS can bind to the serotonin transporter in the plasma membrane such that serotonin uptake then couples to NO formation (Chanrion et al., 2007), a hitherto unique 'metabotropic' transporter activity (Garthwaite, 2007).

Molitor et al. (2014, submitted to FEBS) purified AUS from petals of Coreopsis grandiflora and demonstrated a hitherto unique unknown structural feature (disulfide linkage between C-terminal domain and main core) of the enzyme, that could be related to a more specialized physiological role compared to common PPOs.

In Berlin, a city presumed to have a high incidence, we performed a pilot project hitherto unique in Germany in which all newborns born between 1 September 2011 and 30 November 2012 who had given blood samples in the context of the extended NBS program were retrospectively additionally tested for SCD [ 41].

Our study employed a hitherto unique combination of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and abdominal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), while previous studies of the relationship between phthalate concentrations and obesity have been limited to the use of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) [ 9, 10].

Its similarity to the CADD proteins, which were hitherto considered unique to the Chlamydia species, needs to be further investigated by assaying for binding with the DR5 (death receptor) domain for a potential role as a toxin that can induce apoptosis.

The observed higher newborn mortality during lactation is a hitherto non-described, unique link to the still incompletely understood human sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Its significance is that it shows Neanderthals were capable of abstract thought and creativity of a type hitherto thought to be unique to modern humans.

In this paper, we report a unique effect, hitherto unreported, that is attributable to Si interstitials present within oxide layers previously generated by the selective oxidation of polycrystalline-SiGe (poly-SiGe) nanopillars leaving behind Ge quantum dots (QDs) or nanocrystallites when the preferential oxidation of Si is complete.

The present paper investigates a community of mandrills' (Mandrillus sphinx) unique gesture, hitherto unreported, which has persisted stably for a decade within a single community and has never been observed in any other communities of the species across three continents.