Hubel and Wiesel have found cells that respond differentially according to the direction in which a stimulus is moved across the retina.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a differential feature.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : a pressure differential.    From Dictionary.com. 

As a result, arginylated proteins are difficult to distinguish in biochemical tests or to label differentially from other intracellular proteins.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

Genes with 5% FDR were classified as differentially expressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Reduction of Sp1 or NF-κB expression differentially regulates SPAK expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

MiRNAs identified as differentially expressed in CNS tissues of scrapie infected mice.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Far fewer transcripts are identified as differentially expressed between the pools compared to the parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Thus, a total of 134 array targets were identified as differentially expressed between the parents whereas only two were different between the pools.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

You cannot pay differentially in the federal government.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2001] Reference

And again, one has to look differentially around the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2003] Reference

How much is this service differentially apply to various economic sectors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Redistribution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

We must recognize that women are differentially affected by a hostile climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digits of Pi: Barriers and Enablers for Women in Engineering] Reference

His various books sell quite differentially, depending on how "heavy" each is.    From Wordnik.com.  [BEA/ALA, booksellers, librarians] Reference

Europe's native-born upper classes would survive at a differentially higher rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor"] Reference

He did this differentially for men and women and got some surprising and very important results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digits of Pi: Barriers and Enablers for Women in Engineering] Reference

"I believe we also need the means to reward teachers differentially according to performance and context.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Members of the groups might possess personal characteristics differentially that causally produce the good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

From the microarray expression data, we identified 43 genes differentially expressed between the two groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Urology Division Research] Reference

We do not want to distort the money markets by having it happen differentially in each of the nine provinces.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The consequences of personal responsibility can only be applied differentially when individuals have a choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deane Waldman: Aaahh, Iiiiinnput!] Reference

It is the result of systems set up by human beings that differentially benefit different groups in the society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Creamer: Why Growing Income Inequality Is Bad for America] Reference

Natural selection can only differentially preserve certain variations in a spectrum of variation within a species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Would Gould Have Signed the Steves List? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Is the moral ability to tell the truth, or see the truth, differentially distributed between racial groups as well?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behavioral Modification] Reference

There should not be a comparison between who is more at risk or who is differentially at risk in a civil-war situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada's Refugee Determination Process] Reference

Genes differentially survive and reproduce only insofar as they cause individuals to differentially survive and reproduce.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection X: Na��ve Gene Selectionism] Reference

Political emancipation affected Jews differentially, depending on their place of residence and their socio-economic status.    From Wordnik.com.  [France, Modern.] Reference

Applied to conservation, individual species are differentially valued and assessed relative to differential opportunity costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biodiversity] Reference

Changes in habitat characteristics driven by climate change are also likely to differentially affect specific populations of fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Changes in aquatic biota and ecosystem structure and function in the Arctic] Reference

During the last two presidential campaigns, women have struggled to get any attention for the issues that differentially affect them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marie Wilson: Adding Women Changes Everything at Meet The Press] Reference

If some groups in the population are differentially at risk of getting ill, it is not sufficient merely to attend to their illnesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justice and Access to Health Care] Reference

So, relative to black and white American players, Latin players have been differentially benefiting from an irrational hiring standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Race and the Whistle] Reference

Constructing a cement masonry dentition wall to prevent undercutting of the upper part of a steep cut slope in differentially weathered gneiss.    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1 Retaining walls] Reference

The various flower traits (and combinations thereof) that differentially attract one type of pollinator or another are known as pollination syndromes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pollination] Reference

If one country generates 1% of the illegal immigration traffic, and the other country generates 99% of it, I would expect a differentially tougher law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left-wing racist misogynists (a mea culpa)] Reference

The Glen Rose Formation has alternating layers of limestone, chert, and marl that erode differentially and generally more easily than the Edwards Limestone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference

"It is surely inconceivable that the proposed policy could be differentially implemented across provinces - some declaring non-fee schools, others not," said Mannah.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Above this copper shell there are two identical coils of wire which may, according to circumstances, be coupled in tension or in series, or be employed differentially.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884] Reference

The GPS equipment utilized by the Documentation Center, when differentially corrected for magnetic distortion, locates specific places to an accuracy of within a few meters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Toll in Cambodia: Quantifying Crimes Against Humanity (Craig Etcheson)] Reference

Another approach is differentially to encourage or authorize those in different roles to rethink their understanding of various aspects of what is morally incumbent on them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Reasoning] Reference