Other work established the mechanistic basis of protein translation, but in Woese's view, largely overlooked the genetic code's evolutionary origins as an afterthought.

"Most scientists tend to reject a concept when there is no mechanistic basis to explain it."

Werner syndrome and Hutchinson-Gilford progeria: mechanistic basis of human progeroid syndromes.

Although many computational models of working memory have been developed, the mechanistic basis of executive function remains elusive.

"There's no mechanistic basis to explain how tumors could be changing the T-cells in the body."

Many scientists regard all emotion and cognition (in humans and animals) as having a purely mechanistic basis.

Oxidation to a reactive quinone methide is the mechanistic basis of many phenolic anti-cancer drugs.

For that matter, could the urge, and all of its manifestations, be understood if approached from a purely mechanistic Newtonian basis?

The results tell us a great deal about the mechanistic basis of interfacial activation.

Modern science has increasingly moved out of nature and into the laboratory, driven by a desire to find an underlying mechanistic basis of life.